Three Reports on Wi-Fi and Emergency Services: Wireless Broadband Association

"The WBA says that the reports collectively cover six areas related to emergency services: Wi-Fi as mission-critical infrastructure: Wi-Fi's evolution to a standards-compliant, resilient infrastructure capable of supporting emergency and public safety services Emergency services access: Ways to ensure support for E-911/E-112 calls over Wi-Fi regardless of mobile subscription status Priority access for NS/EP users: How to provide real-time prioritization of first responder traffic during network congestion"

"OpenRoaming and Passpoint integration: Provisioning of secure, seamless, and policy-based access across federated Wi-Fi networks Advanced location handling: Insight into the shared emphasis on accurate, standards-based location delivery using RFC 5580, IEEE 802.11mc Round Trip Time (RTT), and Location Configuration Information (LCI) or emergency call routing to local PSAPs Regulatory and legal readiness: Description of the legal frameworks and alignment with 3GPP, IEEE, FCC, and global emergency standards"

Wi‑Fi, Passpoint and OpenRoaming can facilitate and sustain emergency calling and priority communications worldwide. The framework covers six core areas: mission‑critical Wi‑Fi infrastructure resilience, access for emergency services including E‑911/E‑112 regardless of mobile subscription, priority access and real‑time prioritization for NS/EP and first responder traffic, integration and secure policy‑based provisioning across federated Wi‑Fi networks, advanced standards‑based location delivery using RFC 5580, IEEE 802.11mc RTT and LCI for accurate emergency routing, and regulatory and legal alignment with 3GPP, IEEE, FCC and global emergency standards. Building thermal‑radiation blocking measures reduce effectiveness of outside‑in cellular indoor coverage.

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