The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) announced publication of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Updating Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Outage Contact Information (ATIS-0100068), which provides information on how Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) contact information is to be collected and documented. This new process addresses the challenges associated with identifying PSAP and 9-1-1 authority recipients of outage notifications and the mechanisms for collecting and standardizing contact information.
“This ATIS resource will serve to strengthen situational awareness during 9-1-1 outages,” said ATIS President and CEO Susan Miller. “It is another of the many industry resources ATIS has delivered to advance communications during times of emergency.”
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The Regulatory Mix Today: ATIS PSAP Outage Contact Information, US Senate 5G Development Bill, US Senate Industries of the Future Act
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A bipartisan group of leading national security Senators introduced S.3189, the Utilizing Strategic Allied (USA) Telecommunications Act, legislation to encourage and support U.S. innovation in the race for 5G, providing over $1 billion to invest in Western-based alternatives to Chinese equipment providers Huawei and ZTE. The Act would reassert U.S. and Western leadership by encouraging competition with Huawei that capitalizes on U.S. software advantages, accelerating development of an open-architecture model (known as O-RAN) that would allow for alternative vendors to enter the market for specific network components, rather than having to compete with Huawei end-to-end.
Among other things, the Act would:
The bill was sponsored by Senators Mark Warner (D-VA), Richard Burr (R-NC), Marco Rubio (R-FL) Robert Menendez (D-NJ), John Cornyn (R-TX) and Michael Bennet (D-CO). The Senator’s statements are available here.
U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Gary Peters (D-MI) introduced S. 3191, the Industries of the Future Act of 2020. The legislation would advance U.S. global leadership in artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, quantum information science, synthetic biology, and next generation wireless networks and infrastructure.
The Act would:
The senators’ statements are available here.
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The Regulatory Mix, Inteserra’s blog of telecom related regulatory activities, is a snapshot of PUC, FCC, legislative, and occasionally court issues that our regulatory monitoring team uncovers each day. Depending on their significance, some items may be the subject of an Inteserra Briefing.