Alarm Industry Group Urges FCC Delay of AT&T 3G Shutdown

The Alarm Industry Communications Committee warned the FCC that 2 million alarm customers must be retrofitted before AT&T shutters its 3G network in six weeks (see 2109150041). AICC representatives recently spoke with aides to Commissioners Brendan Carr and Nathan Simington, said a filing posted Thursday in docket 21-304. AICC said every one of the comments filed last year on the need for delay other than AT&T's "supports an extension.” AICC said the COVID-19 pandemic is a new challenge: “The country is experiencing numerous shut downs due to Omicron. None of this messaging gives alarm customers the ‘all clear’ to let outsiders like alarm installers … into their homes.”