The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the global industry body dedicated to driving the seamless and interoperable service experience of Wi-Fi across the global wireless ecosystem, has today launched three reports, providing a framework for how Wi-Fi, Passpoint and OpenRoaming can facilitate and sustain emergency calling and priority communications around the world. Developed by WBA’s Mission Critical & Emergency Services Program, the framework demonstrates how across indoor venues, dense public spaces and other challenging environments, Wi-Fi further enhances the availability, reliability and performance of communications networks between the public, first responders, public safety organizations and emergency services.
Wi-Fi has already proved a critical line of communications in emergency situations, such as Hurricane Katrina when cell towers were affected. Equally, in densely populated public spaces and indoor environments, Wi-Fi can be a lifeline for communication between the public, emergency services and first responders, where other methods may be limited by signal strength, connection density and bandwidth.
These papers provide a framework and practical advice to the emergency services, public safety organizations, mobile operators, device manufacturers and Wi-Fi providers. They explain how Wi-Fi extends traditional mobile services to enhance public safety responses, while also helping mobile operators manage the signal challenges of indoor spaces, densely populated public spaces and weak or dead spots.
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