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Maryland Department Says FirstNet Should Follow Disaster Reporting Rules

The Maryland Department of Information Technology called on the FCC to require that FirstNet participate in the agency’s disaster information reporting system and network outage reporting system, an issue raised in a January Further NPRM (see 2401250064). The department noted…

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that in 2013, FirstNet opposed reporting real time data to the FCC. “In the ten plus years since that initial opposition, everyone in the public safety broadband space has learned much from actual use in events requiring first responders,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 21-346: “FirstNet has migrated from a new system reaching out to public safety for subscribers to a mature tool vital to many first responders.”