SAN RAMON, Calif.-U.S. Wireless Corp., a provider of wireless locations information and traffic-related services, completed tests for the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), confirming that its RadioCamera caller location system, which serves both emergency and commercial purposes, satisfies the Phase II requirements of the...
WASHINGTON-Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, has begun preparing for the likelihood that many mobile-phone carriers will not meet upcoming deadlines governing location-based 911 wireless emergency service rules.Meanwhile, Sugrue and his staff are mired in other prickly 911 policy issues dealing...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected shortly to rule on Motorola Inc.'s 911 call processing-telematics waiver request, a filing that attracted industry support and sharp criticism from consumer and public-safety groups.Motorola last month asked the FCC for permission to build an additional 30,000 handsets...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected to revise wireless enhanced 911 rules that would eliminate the cost-recovery obligation that now must be met before E911 services have to be deployed.The move faced heavy lobbying from wireless carriers, two associations representing public safety answering points...
WASHINGTON-Lost in the hoopla over the enactment of wireless 911 legislation last week is the growing prospect that the rollout of position location for the nation's 80 million mobile-phone users will be seriously delayed in the same way that caller identification is far behind...
WASHINGTON-The big debate at last week's Federal Communication Commission enhanced 911 technology round table was not over the technical issues but rather over the policy issues.Still left to be decided is whether the Oct. 1, 2001, date for compliance with Phase II E911 will...
WASHINGTON-A technical committee for Code Division Multiple Access technology development is working on an adjunct standard of the technology that could be used for Phase II enhanced 911.The specification would "put part of the global positioning system receiver in the phone and part on...
To the Editor: The D.C. Notes column by Jeff Silva, Oct. 19 issue, is of considerable concern to me as executive director of the Greater Harris County 911 Emergency Network, and to the network's board of managers.The article impugns the reputation of John Melcher, the...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, Bellcore and the National Emergency Number Association are sponsoring a meeting about implementing FCC Phase 2 enhanced 911 wireless location technology requirements.The meeting, scheduled for August 26-27 at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco Union Square, will include live trials...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is evaluating a proposal that would require cellular carriers to program cell phones to send 911 calls to the A or B side system that offers the best signal. The so-called strongest signal proposal has placed the FCC in the...
BALTIMORE-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno praised the National Emergency Number Association for its 911 service in Miami during her 15-year stint there as a prosecutor. Her congratulations also included NENA's implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act during the last seven years.Part of the...
WASHINGTON-"The current infrastructure lets us find you, but it's eroding every day, step by step," commented Dr. Ricardo Martinez, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration at last week's Call to Action for Implementation of Wireless 911. "By the year 2000, there will...
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers say a petition calling for unrestricted access to 911 telephone service would perpetuate fraud and impair public safety responsiveness, but concede some cellular systems block access to emergency dispatchers.The Personal Communications Industry Association and the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association have urged the...
According to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, approximately a half million 911 calls are placed over U.S. cellular networks each month. With the cellular subscribers growing at an annual rate of 48 percent, the number of cellular 911 calls is increasing, creating a serious...
