Improving Outage Reporting for Submarine Cables and Enhanced Submarine Outage Data

The information collected here facilitates FCC monitoring, analysis, and investigation of the reliability and security of submarine cable networks, and to identify and act on potential threats to our Nation's telecommunications infrastructure. The NORS outage reports collected from submarine cable providers help the FCC develop a better understanding of the root causes of significant outages, and to explore preventive measures to mitigate the impact of such outages.

The latest form for Improving Outage Reporting for Submarine Cables and Enhanced Submarine Outage Data expires 2027-05-31 and can be found here.