Wednesday, August 7, | 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Roberto Mussenden, Attorney Advisor, and Renee Roland, Special Counsel, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, FCC
Senior officials from the Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau provided updates on agency regulations impacting 9-1-1, including public safety spectrum, location-based routing, next generation 9-1-1, network resiliency and outage reporting. On spectrum, Attorney Advisor Roberto Mussenden stated, “We reaffirmed that the 4.9 GHz band is a public safety band” and discussed the ongoing process for developing rules to enhance public safety use of the band.
Special Counsel Renee Roland also highlighted that the Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council, a Federal Advisory Committee responsible for providing recommendations to the FCC to promote the security, reliability, and resiliency of the Nation’s communications systems, would be investigating the use of AI and machine learning in the Nation’s communications systems and ways to ensure consumer access to 9-1-1 on all available networks as technology evolves.
Submitted by Alison Venable
