Telecommunications Service Priority
Issue 2
Abstract/Description

This document provides guidelines for administrative procedures for the priority provisioning and restoration of Interconnection and Local Service(s), provided to Telecommunications Service Customers by Telecommunications Service Providers relative to National Security Emergency Preparedness (NSEP) Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) System.

The Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) System for NSEP has been developed to provide priority treatment to our nation’s most important telecommunications services. Under the provisions of the TSP System, telecommunication service vendors are both authorized and required, when necessary, to provision and restore those telecommunication services with TSP assignments before services without such assignments.

Only services that qualify as NSEP are eligible for TSP assignments. The FCC defines NSEP services as those telecommunication services which are used to maintain a state of readiness or to respond to and manage any event or crisis (local, national, or international), which causes or could cause injury or harm to the population, damage to or loss of property, or degrades or threatens the NSEP posture of the United States. This document refers to such services as “TSP services”.