Focus

1. Examine ways to increase the speed with which communications can be restored post event;
2. Review whether communications technology could have been used more effectively during the recovery period, including issues relating to consumer education and post-event deployment of communications technology;
3. Review the intra-industry procedures that communications providers use to coordinate recovery efforts;
4. Review the industry-government procedures that private communications firms and federal, state and local governments use to coordinate recovery efforts;
5. Study ways that private industry can obtain faster and more efficient access to impacted areas;
6. Review the security and protection procedures utilized by private communications industry members when they send their first responders to impacted areas; and
7. Review how well emergency communications services including Telecommunications Service Priority, Government Emergency Telecommunications Service, and Wireless Priority Access performed during Katrina and the extent to which emergency responders used these services.