California Commission Urges New Network Resiliency Rules
The California Public Utilities Commission urged the FCC to impose new requirements about network resilience on wireless carriers. The commission noted it filed the comments on time but in the wrong docket. They were posted Monday in docket 21-346. “Communications…
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service providers have not sufficiently partnered with emergency responders to assist in ensuring public safety during disasters that cause communications network outages,” the CPUC said: “Adopt a set of mandatory resiliency strategies, particularly, a minimum backup power duration of 72 hours.” Require carriers to provide “accurate, real-time, and detailed information” on outages and “consider a process for issuing penalties when communications networks’ outages occur,” the commission said. Initial comments were due Dec. 16 (see 2112170065).