FCC Should Deny Interoperability Petitions, FirstNet Says
FirstNet Executive Director Ed Parkinson and others from the authority told the FCC it should reject a request that the agency impose interoperability rules on the national first responder network (see 1909270054). The FCC earlier commented on Colorado's Boulder Regional…
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Emergency Telephone Service Authority (BRETSA) petitions for declaratory ruling or rulemaking. The petitions seek measures “inconsistent with and not actionable under the FirstNet Authority’s enabling statute, and which would damage the FirstNet program fought for by public safety and prescribed by Congress,” FirstNet said in a meeting with Public Safety Bureau staff: The FirstNet network “is interoperable as required under the 2012 Act.” The FCC has already “fulfilled all of its duties and responsibilities” in that act, said the filing posted Monday in docket 19-254.