T-Mobile Seeks Wireless Priority Service Waiver
T-Mobile asked for a waiver allowing it to provide wireless priority service (WPS) over its LTE network in Q3 2018. T-Mobile said it will offer WPS, allowing public officials priority to make calls, under an agreement with the Department of…
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Homeland Security’s Office of Emergency Communications. But OEC is requiring that WPS be available at all times and not just on a per-call basis, the carrier said. “Because T- Mobile is able to deploy WPS over LTE while also preserving sufficient capacity for non-priority users, grant of a waiver would be in the public interest,” T-Mobile said in a petition for expedited waiver. “T-Mobile asks the Commission to grant it a waiver of the per-call activation requirement for WPS over LTE until two years after OEC provides funding for the necessary network development.” Carriers offer WPS on a voluntary basis.