Southern Linc Updates FCC on Changing Utility Communications Needs
Bentina Terry, new president and CEO of Southern Linc, and other company representatives met with FCC Commissioners Brendan Carr, Geoffrey Starks and Anna Gomez “to provide an overview of the company and its policy priorities,” said a filing posted Friday…
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in 21-346 and other dockets. “Southern Linc offers comprehensive geographic coverage, serving the extensive rural territory within its footprint as well as major metropolitan areas and highway corridors,” the company said. Terry explained how the communications needs of utilities are changing. “Historically, utilities mainly needed systems that supported two-way land mobile voice communications for line crews and field workers,” the company said: “With the digitization of the electric grid that is now underway, utilities now need broadband networks capable of handling large amounts of data -- data that is used to monitor and control the electric grid, to facilitate customers' pursuit of greater energy efficiency, and to ensure both the physical security and cybersecurity of the Nation’s critical electric infrastructure.”