Small Carriers Need Adequate Time to Make Resilience Filings: Blooston
The Blooston Group of rural carriers filed to support a CTIA/Competitive Carriers Association petition seeking a list of potential facilities-based providers to which the FCC’s new mandatory disaster response initiative (MDRI) may apply and asking for time to comply (see…
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2211010056). Filings were due Monday in docket 21-346. “Small mobile wireless carriers have limited personnel and financial resources and will need at least eighteen (18) months to negotiate and enter into bilateral Roaming Under Disaster (RuD) and mutual-aid arrangements with all foreseeable wireless providers, and to perform testing of their roaming capabilities,” the law firm said: “The process of negotiating RuD terms and mutual-aid arrangements with multiple service providers is likely to take longer than the 200 hour estimate contained in the Resilient Networks [order] for carriers that do not already have intercarrier arrangements in place.” Blooston was the only party to file.