There is bipartisan support at the Federal Communications Commission for making voluntary rules around network resiliency into enforceable ones.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is circulating new draft rules that are aimed at helping to reduce cellular network outages after natural disasters, largely by codifying an existing voluntary industry framework that the nation’s largest operators are already a part of, and expand it to cover all facilities-based wireless service providers. It revolves mostly around network operators providing mutual aid to one another and settling on bilateral roaming agreements ahead of time that would cover situations like a disaster or emergency, as well as expanding the triggers that would activate such arrangements.
