Our goal is to help your business evolve and your team excel in all aspects of managing your sales, service delivery and subscriber management in an all-in-one system. To that point, when the regulatory landscape changes, Vision gives you the tools to adapt quickly.
Fibersmith integrated the new FCC broadband nutrition label requirements into Vision Software. This built-in feature makes it easy for your business to comply with regulations and provides your customers with clear, accurate information about their broadband service pricing.
How Vision will help you use Broadband Consumer Labels for your services.
Visit the FCC.gov to read more about the Broadband Consumer Labels at www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels
The majority of providers must display at the point of sale clear, easy-to-understand, and accurate information about the cost and performance of broadband services. The compliance deadline for ISPs with fewer than 100,000 subscribers is October 10, 2024.
The following information is required to build out the label templates. Please send your company label information to Vision Support at support@fibersmith.systems
Required Information
Additional Optional Information
After setting up the templates with the Support Team, your company Broadband Consumer Labels can be found under Admin Utilities > Service Packages in Vision. Each individual Service Package includes a label built specifically for the specific Service Package technology, speed and pricing.
At the bottom of the Service Package Attributes, select from the drop down and then Copy the URL There is an option to choose the format of the Broadband Consumer Label to display the label to consumers.
Vision offers multiple ways of displaying the Label including a public or embedded PDF, JPG, and PNG.
Sample Label:
Implement the URL links and/or PDF images to your website wherever a visitor is viewing your packages and pricing.
When using Vision's Public Shopping Cart, clients can update each Service Offers section to add links to each 'Description for Public Shopping Cart.' Go to Admin Utilities > Service Offers.
Editing the description will update the online shopping section so consumers can reference while buying services online from your business.
Adding an HTML snippet of the Public PDF Broadband Label to the Service Offer description will direct subscribers to view the label in a window. To add the snippet, click Icon in the editor, use this code script to add the link to the corresponding Service Offer - <a target="_blank" href="LINK TO BROADBAND LABEL HERE">View broadband label</a>
Broadband labels will be produce when a Service Package is set to Production status and is billable.
For Service Packages that is in Development a URL for the Broadband Label will be created and have the ability to copied to an Service Offer description. The Broadband Label will not be produced until the Service Package is set to Production.
When a Service Package is set to Archived a Broadband Label will not be generated. A backfill will generate a Broadband Label for an archived package if current subscribers are still using it.
Please contact the Vision Support Team for additional assistance or questions about getting this set up for your company.
This free label tool is provided for your company to implement as needed in the areas of web, in person and phone sales. It is the providers responsibility to ensure compliance is met with FCC regulations. Fibersmith Software Solutions does not hold responsibility for the display of the labels. Please ensure that your team has reviewed all information listed in the label and each are presentable in your public spaces.