FCC Seeks Comment on CTIA Disaster Preparation Framework
The FCC Public Safety Bureau sought comment Thursday on a proposed CTIA framework aimed at enabling carriers to work together to let customers roam on each other’s networks after a disaster like 2012’s Superstorm Sandy (see 1604270035). Industry and government…
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officials said Thursday that the accord was crafted in the hope that carriers would work out agreements before disaster strikes. AT&T and T-Mobile agreed to allow customers to roam on the other’s networks in the aftermath of Sandy, but that agreement took several days to work out, during which time affected subscribers couldn’t call 911 or otherwise communicate using their cellphones, officials said. The FCC sought comment on a broader resiliency issue in 2013, the bureau said. “Since the Resiliency Notice was issued and the record compiled, the Bureau has engaged in a number of meetings with a variety of stakeholders to understand the data that different segments value in evaluating the overall resiliency of wireless networks and outage impacts, as well as other factors in developing more resilient wireless networks,” the bureau said in Thursday's notice. “We seek comment on the carriers’ ‘Wireless Resiliency Cooperative Framework’ in light of the aims of the Resiliency Notice and the associated record.” The comment deadline is 15 days after the notice is published in the Federal Register.