By delaying a decision on a numbering administrator, the FCC...
By delaying a decision on a numbering administrator, the FCC is putting the 21 public safety broadband waiver recipients in a tough position, Public Safety Spectrum Trust Operator Advisory Committee Chairman Bill Schrier told commission officials. The waiver recipients selected…
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Science Applications International Corp. as the administrator and asked for FCC blessing in February, Schrier, also chief technology officer in Seattle, wrote the commission (http://xrl.us/bmx5nc). Schrier noted that deadlines are approaching. Under a January order from the Public Safety Bureau (http://xrl.us/bmx5my), the waiver recipients are supposed to “complete development” of the numbering scheme by March 31” and employ a “common entity to provide the clearinghouse functions” by May 31, he noted. Charlotte, N.C., which wants to launch an early system this summer, asked for a block of networking numbering identifiers last week, requesting they be delivered by March 12, Schrier said. “SAIC is able to deliver most of the numbering identifiers to Charlotte the week of March 12, but they would be doing so as an administrator unapproved by the [Public Safety Bureau], which places Charlotte at risk.” Schrier told us he’s not sure why the FCC has yet to act on approving SAIC as numbering administrator. “The practical effect is that if Charlotte or anyone else uses numbers based on an unapproved scheme or from an unapproved administrator, they risk having to re-do the numbers they use in their network,” he said. “I think the chance of this is relatively small.”