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“Early FCC disaster outage reports should tell the public when known outages kept 911 centers from receiving emergency calls, seeing caller location or number information, or routing calls to emergency responders.”
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“The FCC should study whether 911 centers need clearer outage notices, such as maps or other visuals, examine which 911 outages current reporting thresholds may miss, and recommend rule changes if needed.”
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“The government should publicly review major disaster-related phone and internet outages so communities can see what failed and what should improve.”
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“When the FCC's disaster reporting system is active for at least 7 days, the FCC should publish an early public report within 6 weeks showing known internet, mobile, VoIP, and 911-related outages, how long they lasted, and roughly how many people or network facilities were affected?”
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“The FCC should be able to add other useful information to an early disaster outage report when the agency has collected it.”
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“After a qualifying disaster communications event, the FCC should publish a final report within 12 months with the outage facts and any FCC recommendations for making affected communications networks stronger and faster to restore.”
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“NTIA should report each year to Congress on FirstNet cyberattacks, cyber defenses, and unplanned outages, while the FirstNet contractor should notify FirstNet within 30 minutes after confirming an outage and give federal users timely outage status information.”
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“The FirstNet contractor should submit plans for quickly restoring the network after disasters or emergencies, and NTIA should approve each plan within 180 days or explain in writing what must be fixed and how to resubmit it.”
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“When the FCC's disaster reporting system is active for at least 7 days, the FCC should hold a public hearing in the affected area within 8 months and consider hearing from residents, local and tribal governments, communications providers, experts, utilities, emergency managers, first responders, and 911 leaders?”
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“Emergency call centers should get outage notices that are clear enough and broad enough to help them respond when service fails.”
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“The FCC should post each disaster outage report on its website when it is issued, while leaving out information that existing FCC rules protect from public release.”
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