WASHINGTON—The Federal Highway Administration late Monday released the "presoliciation notice" for the next-generation 911 system, which would overhaul the current nationwide emergency-response system that relies on 6,000 public-safety answering points with divergent ways of handling calls. "This follow-on project will require the 911 system...
WASHINGTON-More than two-thirds of the nation's population has access to enhanced 911 service, largely because it is being deployed in urban areas faster than in rural communities, according to figures posted earlier this month by the National Emergency Number Association. Howver, more than half...
WASHINGTON-The National Emergency Number Association released its "911 System Reference Guide" to help carriers-primarily Voice over Internet Protocol providers-and public-safety answering points plan and build their own routing solutions. Access to selective router information is difficult for nonincumbent wireline carriers to get because often...
WASHINGTON-The National Emergency Number Association released its "911 System Reference Guide" to help carriers-primarily Voice over Internet Protocol providers-and public-safety answering points plan and build their own routing solutions.Access to selective router information is difficult for non-incumbent wireline carriers to get because often the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said Voice over Internet Protocol carriers do not have to cut off service to customers in areas where enhanced 911 is not available, but VoIP carriers cannot market to or sign new customers in those areas. The FCC originally made...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said late Monday that Voice over Internet Protocol carriers do not have to cut off service to customers in areas where enhanced 911 is not available, but VoIP carriers cannot market to or sign up new customers in those areas.Nov....
WASHINGTON-The National Emergency Number Association asked the Federal Communications Commission to establish an interim, then permanent, Routing Number Administrator, a move that would benefit Voice over Internet Protocol providers facing difficulties routing enhanced 911 calls as they race to deploy E-911 service. "Both for...
WASHINGTON-The National Emergency Number Association recently asked the Federal Communications Commission to establish an interim, then permanent, Routing Number Administrator, a move that would benefit Voice over Internet Protocol providers facing difficulties in routing enhanced 911 calls as they race to deploy E-911 service....
Even as Voice over Internet Protocol providers race to meet the Federal Communications Commission's deadline to offer enhanced 911 service, many of them are running into the same roadblock that stymied wireless deployment-incumbent local exchange carriers. VoIP carriers are learning a lesson that wireless...
WASHINGTON-The Rural Cellular Association told the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau last week that the Federal Communications Commission in a recent report to Congress underestimated and poorly reflected the efforts of Tier III wireless carriers to implement wireless enhanced 911 Phase II. "With the small...
WASHINGTON-The Rural Cellular Association told the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Wednesday that the Federal Communications Commission in a recent report to Congress underestimated and poorly reflected the efforts of Tier III wireless carriers to implement wireless enhanced 911 Phase II."With the small number of...
WASHINGTON-America Online Inc. said Thursday it will begin offering Voice over Internet Protocol telephony, and to blunt the criticism other VoIP providers have received, it joined the National Emergency Number Association and said it will offer enhanced 911 as a standard feature."We believe we...
WASHINGTON-The National Emergency Number Association today unveiled a new program to foster deployment of enhanced 911 by the mobile-phone industry and other high-tech sectors, an initiative that comes as Congress attempts to pass legislation this week that would create a state grant program to...
WASHINGTON-An 11th-hour effort to pass the wireless enhanced 911 funding bill was struggling against a senatorial objection that stopped the frenetic activity to get the bill passed. Still, supporters remained hopeful the bill would be considered before Congress leaves town for the election. The...
WASHINGTON-Carriers that chose the handset solution to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's wireless enhanced 911 Phase II rules may not be required to have complete deployment by the end of next year if an 11th-hour effort to pass a 911 funding bill includes...
WASHINGTON-The state of wireless enhanced 911 deployment is difficult to determine because different entities use different standards, said the NGA Center for Best Practices in a paper presented Wednesday to the FCC's Third Wireless E911 Coordination Initiative."The lack of standardization in assessing progress makes...
WASHINGTON-Rural Cellular Corp. is asking Congress to extend the deadline for wireless enhanced 911 Phase II service."The solution to ensure that rural communities receive the same assurances of their E911 system as their urban counterparts would be to allow for a two-year extension of...
WASHINGON-The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International today criticized a key report's finding that federal regulators relax a government mandate governing one form of mobile-phone location-based 911 service.APCO said it finds objectionable a recommendation in the report-issued by the National Emergency Number Association and...
WASHINGTON-The chairs of the E911 Congressional Caucus, Sens. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), have amended the agricultural spending bill to include money for a loan program aimed at deploying wireless enhanced 911 technology."The Burns-Clinton appropriation is a valuable tool in improving...
WASHINGTON-The House of Representatives last week passed the E911 Implementation Act of 2003 by voice vote. "While most state governments tax cell-phone users for upgrades and implementation of enhanced 911 services, that money often has been diverted for other uses. The E911 bill gives...
WASHINGTON-The House of Representatives Tuesday passed the E911 Implementation Act of 2003 by voice vote."While most state governments tax cell-phone users for upgrades and implementation of enhanced 911 services, that money often has been diverted for other uses. The E911 bill gives states the...
HOUSTON—Greater Harris County 911 Emergency Network of Houston is teaming with Ford Motor Co. to show off its emergency rescue telematics system at the National Emergency Number Association annual conference in Indianapolis next week.The telematics technology, created by Cross Country automotive Services, Ford Motor...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association again last week pressured the public-safety community to make firm commitments as to the deployment of enhanced 911 service.With a looming Oct. 1 deadline that requires wireless carriers to be prepared to implement E911 service, the trade association...
WASHINGTON-In the world of wireless enhanced 911, the Fourth of July fireworks were not just up in the sky. Carriers, public-safety officials and government spent the holiday week reacting to a strongly worded letter from Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet...
