FCC Says Challenges Remain on Wi-Fi for Reaching 911
The FCC warned Congress of “limits to the feasibility” of giving the public unrestricted access to 911 over Wi-Fi or unlicensed spectrum. “Existing Wi-Fi and unlicensed infrastructure typically are not engineered to provide the resiliency and reliability needed to support…
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communications in a major emergency and are likely to be affected by many of the same conditions that impair mobile networks” then, said the report in Wednesday’s Daily Digest. Opening the platforms for 911 “would require modifying or disabling authentication protocols and other safeguards, which could result in increased vulnerability,” the FCC said. It backed “further study of the technical and policy challenges.” The document was required in Ray Baum's Act.