Miscellaneous
Sprint Nextel believes carrier-specific and state-specific Disaster Information Reporting System information should be provided to state emergency response centers “upon condition that the state enters into a non-disclosure agreement that would bar the state from releasing such information to the…
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public either during the emergency or at any time after the emergency,” Sprint said in an ex parte filing at the FCC. Sprint made the filing Friday on a Jan. 3 meeting with Public Safety Bureau staffers to discuss Sprint’s response to Superstorm Sandy. “Based on what was discussed at the meeting, Sprint did not believe that it needed to file an ex parte notice,” the carrier said (http://bit.ly/ZwwsGg). But then Sprint was contacted by a bureau official who said that “because Sprint ... briefly discussed the sharing of DIRS data with the states during disasters -- an issue that may be considered in this proceeding -- Sprint should file an ex parte letter into the docket setting forth its position.”