New York “might want to recommend wireless providers take GREATER...
New York “might want to recommend wireless providers take GREATER advantage of the TSP [telecommunications service priority] designation for their backhaul facilities,” CenturyLink told the New York State Public Service Commission in a Friday filing (http://xrl.us/bnpr3q). It was responding to…
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PSC questions about 2011’s devastating storm Irene and ways to maintain service. “Within CenturyLink’s network, wireless providers are already the largest ‘holders of TSP Circuit designations'” within the TSP program, the company explained. “It is through this designation that wireline providers know that those specific circuits need to be prioritized above other circuits during restoration.” CenturyLink also had recommendations for how regulators may want to coordinate information about outages during such disasters. There’s “spotty and incomplete reporting” and “given the extensive discussions that have already taken place at the Federal and Regional levels,” CenturyLink doesn’t see carriers as the solution, it said, deferring to state power regulators’ ability to request such information through utility outage and response reporting.