Southern California networks held up fairly well overall in fall ...
Southern California networks held up fairly well overall in fall 2007’s firestorms but could do better, said the Public Utilities Commission. The report said reverse 911 systems in San Bernardino and San Diego counties helped save lives by alerting…
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more than 350,000 people in the fires’ paths. But people with only wireless or VoIP service missed evacuation warnings because their numbers don’t appear automatically in conventional 911 databases used for outbound emergency notices. Local safety officials should encourage people to register non-wireline numbers with those agencies, the PUC said. The disaster caused traffic spikes that delayed or blocked calls. The PUC said carrier networks “performed as designed” but added that there’s “room for improvement” in how carriers monitor and report network performance during massive emergencies. In states of emergency, carriers should closely monitor traffic volumes and blocked calls so they can address congestion as quickly as possible, the report said. And after disasters, carriers should coordinate network recovery with work by other utilities and emergency management agencies.