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Public Safety, Critical Infrastructure Highlight Importance of Backup Power in Disasters

Public safety, business and critical infrastructure officials emphasized the importance of backup power and collaboration between wireless providers and energy providers during a field hearing on disaster communications that was a part of the FCC’s October 26 meeting.FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said it is important that the FCC learn as much as possible whenever communications outages and field hearings provide a strong outlet for that…