Government Emergency Telecommunications Service (GETS)
and Wireless Priority Service (WPS) substantially benefits
hospitals by expediting communications service restoration
after a disruption (with and without a declared
disaster.)
GETS provides emergency access and priority processing in the
local and long distance segments of the Public Switched Network
(PSN). Federal, state, and local government, industry, and
non-profit organization personnel that perform emergency
preparedness can apply for and receive the GETS card and access
code.
Wireless Priority Service (WPS) improves connections for a
limited number of authorized emergency preparedness cell phone
users. In the event of congestion in the wireless network, an
emergency call using WPS will be placed in a queue for the next
available channel.
