The FCC Public Safety Bureau is prioritizing the “reliability and...
The FCC Public Safety Bureau is prioritizing the “reliability and resilience” concerns at the heart of the agency’s post-derecho investigation as well next-generation 911, said Chief David Turetsky at a Wednesday FCBA lunch event. The FCC’s eventual derecho report, set…
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for release before the year’s end and with both confidential and public versions, is being “done in a larger context” than the mid-Atlantic 911 outages and will not be “exclusive to any one carrier,” he said. The report will include analysis of carrier backup power, but Turetsky cautioned that’s “not a yes to any decision about a policy approach that the commission may have at one point taken in the past.” The FCC also owes Congress a report in February on the regulatory framework on the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, and the FCC will invite comments on that topic “soon,” he said. These issues encompass state laws and legal obstacles relevant in implementing NG-911 initiatives, he said. Text-to-911 is “very much on our agenda,” he said. The FCC has a “limited role with respect to FirstNet,” Turetsky said. The transition of spectrum licenses to the FirstNet board is under way, he said, saying the FCC will handle the state opt-out process. The bureau will “soon” standardize the name for the commercial mobile alert system, Turetsky said. “Three names for the same thing is just too much,” he said. “We can do better than that.” Other bureau priorities include narrowbanding, which has an FCC “deadline at year’s end that’s going to remain a deadline,” he said. The commission has “significantly reduced our backlog of older items,” he added. The FCC is monitoring natural disasters and conducting post-incident reports to collect lessons learned, he said. “Hurricane Isaac was the last storm that we fully engaged with.”