Please circulate this to your ISPs. The FCC is preparing for Hurricane Rita. The FCC has well established procedures for assessing telecommunications outages and facilitating restoration. This is true of broadcast, spectrum, and satellite. Of course our procedures for assessing and facilitating internet services are not as formal.
If members of TISPA or other Texas ISPs need to contact the FCC, please consider me the point of contact. We may be able to facilitate resource needs. This could include working with FEMA in order to get necessary authority, negotiate fuel deliveries, coordinate telecommunications restorations for critical circuits... Perhaps individual Texas ISPs will not be impacted, but they want to be part of the restoration effort. We can help coordinate that. If your members might also be able to tell me assessment information. If they have a "network status" page online, I would appreciate knowing its URL. If there are other network problems that perhaps we could help resolve, let us know. Good luck. Robert Cannon Mobile: 703 628 4757 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Robert Cannon Senior Counsel for Internet Policy FCC OSPPA www.fcc.gov/osp/ 202 418 2421 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
