FCC Resiliency Requirements Take Effect May 1 for All Carriers
A September order mandating a May 1 compliance date for all carriers, regardless of size, for new mandatory disaster response initiative (MDRI) requirements approved by commissioners in 2022 (see 2207060070) is set for publication in Friday’s Federal Register. The FCC…
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released the order Sept. 15 (see 2309180039). It responds to an October petition by CTIA and the Competitive Carriers Association (see 2211010056). The FCC “requires that each facilities-based mobile wireless provider enter into bilateral roaming agreements with all other facilities-based mobile wireless providers from which it may foreseeably request roaming privileges, or that may foreseeably request roaming privileges from it, when the MDRI is active,” the notice said: “The Commission clarified that roaming is foreseeable, without limitation, when two providers’ geographic coverage areas overlap.”