Method and apparatus for emergency preparedness communication services

A device comprising:

• a transceiver;
• and
• a processor operably connected to the transceiver, the processor configured to:
• detect, at an access point (AP), that a station (STA) is in an emergency preparedness communication services (EPCS) mode;
• responsive to detecting that the STA is in the EPCS mode, control the transceiver to transmit a beacon frame to another AP, wherein the beacon frame includes a first information element (IE) indicating that EPCS is activated for the STA and wherein the beacon frame indicates for the other AP to turn off overlapping basic service set preamble detection (OBSS/PD);
• and
• control the transceiver to transmit EPCS data to the STA while the other AP has OBSS/PD turned off.