ATIS Committee Seeks Changes to FCC Disaster Reporting Rules
The ATIS Network Reliability Steering Committee (NRSC) asked the FCC to modify its network outage reporting system rules to encourage public safety answering points and 911 authorities to give covered 911 providers data on population counts served by the call…
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centers. The committee also asked the FCC to require covered 911 service providers “to use census or population data derived from other sources instead of telephone number counts to determine ‘user minutes’ threshold criteria.” The petition, posted Friday, asks the FCC to prevent over-reporting of outages by setting a de minimis exception for outages “that affect four (4) or fewer macro cell sites located in Rural Service Areas or 14 or fewer macro cell sites located in Metropolitan Service Areas,” among other proposed changes. “ATIS NRSC recommends changes to Sections 4.7 and 4.9 of the Commission’s rules to facilitate the transition from legacy to [next-generation] 911 systems and to support continued, timely notification of outages in NORS as well as to PSAPs by NG911 systems,” the filing said.