Why can’t Public Safety rely on commercial carriers to provide pre-emption capabilities during critical incidents?
Pre-emption is not supported by commercial networks. Once a user is already on a commercial LTE system, there is no mechanism to kick them off or even stop from occupying more capacity. This is a trick that the press has come to learn very well, using it to their advantage during incidents by never releasing their cell phone connections.
Related Questions
- If priority & pre-emption are so critical to Public Safety and absent in commercial LTE technology, why aren’t leading LTE vendors building this capability into the commercial platforms?
- Why can’t commercial carriers provide Public Safety with prioritized broadband capacity needed during critical incidents?
- How will auctioning the D Block to a commercial operator result in coverage holes for Public Safety?
