• Public Knowledge Calls on FCC to Oversee 3G Sunset [telecom]

    From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 15 10:57:20 2021
    By Shiva Stella

    August 31, 2021

    Yesterday, Public Knowledge, Access Humboldt, Benton Institute for
    Broadband and Society, Center for Rural Strategies, and New America's
    Open Technology Institute filed comments in response to the Federal Communications Commission's Public Notice seeking comment on a petition
    for emergency relief filed by the Alarm Industry Communications Committee.

    The petition for emergency relief requests the FCC act to delay the
    planned shutdown of AT&T's 3G wireless network in February 2022 because security, fire, and personal medical alert systems all rely upon it to function. Because of COVID-19, the alarm industry has not been able to
    upgrade these systems to function on modern wireless networks. Without intervention from the FCC, the shutdown of AT&T's 3G network threatens
    to leave some unknown number of alarm systems inoperable. In addition,
    an unsupervised shutdown of 3G systems by major carriers nationwide puts
    the phone service of millions of Americans - many of them elderly or
    low-income - at risk.

    https://www.publicknowledge.org/press-release/public-knowledge-calls-on-fcc-to-oversee-3g-sunset/

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