Homeland Security Department Urges FCC to Maintain Undersea Cable Capacity Reporting
The Department of Homeland Security asked the FCC keep industry reporting requirements on undersea cable circuit capacity. The reports are "critical to national and homeland security functions," said the department's National Protection and Programs Directorate in a filing posted Monday…
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in docket 17-55. The NPPD said the information, combined with other data, provides its Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis "a unique and more complete overall communications network picture." The department "uses these data to protect and preserve national security and for emergency response purposes," NPPD said. "The resulting analysis is also relied upon in the classified setting to influence key national security decision-making." It said commercial sources of the information are not viewed with high confidence and don't include a breakout of "owned," "leased," and "indefeasible rights of use" capacity. NPPD took no position on international traffic and revenue reporting duties. Industry parties urged the FCC to scrap the traffic and revenue reporting duties, and many also backed eliminating the circuit capacity reporting duties (see 1705190028).