CTIA Defends Voluntary Resiliency Framework
CTIA and member companies defended the wireless industry’s voluntary network resiliency cooperative framework, in calls with an aide to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and Chief Debra Jordan and others from the Public Safety Bureau. An NPRM approved by commissioners in…
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September (see 2109300069) asks about potential improvements, including whether to codify “some or all of the Framework.” The industry representatives discussed “various ways that wireless providers continue to invest in infrastructure, employees, tools, and improved coordination that are necessary to maintain wireless services for consumers and public safety during emergencies and disasters,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 21-346. “These investments include densifying networks with overlapping cell sites, pre-positioning deployable equipment, and enhancing coordination with other communications providers, electric utilities, and federal and state emergency managers.” The framework is “a critical part of the collaboration that jumpstarts response and recovery,” they said. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon officials took part in the calls.