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FCC | RIN: 3060-AL43 | Publication ID: Fall 2022 |
Title: Resilient Networks, Amendments to Part 4 of the Commission's Rules Concerning Disruptions to Communications; PS Docket No 21-346, PS Docket No. 15-80, ET Docket No. 04-35. | |
Abstract:
In October 2021, the Commission adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to investigate ways to improve the reliability and resiliency of communications networks during emergencies and ways to ensure that communications services remain operational when disasters strike. The NPRM sought comment on: (i) potential improvements to the voluntary Wireless Resiliency Cooperative Framework (Framework), including evaluating what triggers its activation, its scope of participants, whether existing Framework elements can be strengthened, any gaps that need to be addressed, and whether the public would benefit from codifying some or all of the Framework, (ii) ways to enhance the information available to the Commission through Network Outage Reporting System (NORS) and Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) during disasters and network outages to improve situational awareness, and (iii) communications resiliency strategies for power outages, including improved coordination between communications service providers and power companies and deploying onsite backup power or other alternative measures to reduce the frequency, duration, or severity of power-related disruptions to communications services. In June 2022, the Commission adopted a Report & Order (R&O) and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) following up on and further addressing matters related to the Framework. The R&O introduced the MDRI, which largely codifies the Framework’s five substantive provisions as mandatory, extended the reach of these provisions to all facilities-based mobile wireless providers, expanded the real-world criteria that trigger activation of the MDRI (as compared to the Framework) and introduced new provisions requiring providers to test their roaming capabilities and report on the performance of their implementation of the MDRI to the Commission after disaster events. The FNPRM examined whether and how the new reporting requirement can be standardized to ensure that the Commission obtains vital and actionable information on the performance of providers’ implementation of the MDRI in the aftermath of exigency, while also minimizing associated burdens.This proceeding addresses network reliability in the context of public safety and does not promote the administration’s specified priorities. |
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Agency: Federal Communications Commission(FCC) | Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant |
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda | Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Long-Term Actions |
Major: Undetermined | Unfunded Mandates: No |
CFR Citation: 47 CFR 0 47 CFR 4 | |
Legal Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151 47 U.S.C. 154(i)-(j) 47 U.S.C. 154(n)-(o) 47 U.S.C. 201 47 U.S.C. 202 47 U.S.C. 214 47 U.S.C. 218 47 U.S.C. 251(e)(3) 47 U.S.C. 254 47 U.S.C. 301 47 U.S.C. 303(b) 47 U.S.C. 303(g) 47 U.S.C. 303(r) 47 U.S.C. 307 47 U.S.C. 309(a) 47 U.S.C. 309(j) 47 U.S.C. 316 47 U.S.C. 332 47 U.S.C. 403 ... |
Legal Deadline:
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Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes | Government Levels Affected: Undetermined |
Small Entities Affected: Businesses | |
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No | |
RIN Data Printed in the FR: Yes | |
Agency Contact: Saswat Misra Attorney-Advisor, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Federal Communications Commission 45 L Street NE, Washington, DC 20554 Phone:202 418-0944 Email: saswat.misra@fcc.gov |