Verizon Wireless announced that 95 percent of its customers are using location-capable handsets. Verizon Wireless is the first carrier using a handset-based approach to E-911 to meet the FCC’s 95-percent threshold. However, it did so six months after the Federal Communications Commission’s deadline of Dec. 31, 2005.
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Alltel Corp. have yet to meet the milestone. Verizon Wireless said about one-third of the nation’s public-safety answering points have upgraded their systems to receive location information from Verizon subscribers.
