WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said late Friday it is giving rural wireless carriers a chance to make their case why they can't abide by the enhanced 911 rules."Tier III (less than 500,000 subscribers) carriers seeking further extensions or other relief from certain E911 requirements...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration last week said it opposed new grant money for the deployment of wireless enhanced 911."The administration believes Congress should consider more efficient and more cost-effective means to address this issue, rather than establishing a new grant program," reads a letter from...
WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee passed the E911 Implementation Act of 2003, changing the rural provisions and making it possible for public-safety answering points to go forward with Phase II wireless E911 implementation even if a state has used 911 funds collected from consumers for...
WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee Tuesday passed the E911 Implementation Act of 2003 changing the rural provisions and making it possible for public-safety answering points to go forward with Phase II wireless enhanced 911 implementation even if a state has used 911 funds collected from...
WASHINGTON-States shouldn't raid funds collected from wireless subscribers for enhanced 911services, and carriers shouldn't collect additional money to use to deploy E911 service if the state has a cost-recovery mechanism in place.This was the single message of two separate actions last week.At a House...
WASHINGTON-Although rural wireless carriers may have special needs when deploying enhanced 911, rural public-safety answering points may need a higher percentage of the grants in proposed legislation, said Indiana State Treasurer Tim Berry.Berry was the first witness at a hearing by the House telecommunications...
WASHINGTON-Rural wireless carriers are different; they use different technology, and they should not be held to the same accuracy standards for wireless enhanced 911 service as their urban counterparts, six senators told the Federal Communications Commission in a recent letter."The Sept. 1 deadline for...
WASHINGTON-Rural wireless carriers are different; they use different technology, and they should not be held to the same accuracy standards for wireless enhanced 911 as their urban counterparts, said six senators recently in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission."The Sept. 1 deadline for...
WASHINGTON-Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), co-chairs of the E911 Congressional Caucus, introduced a bill that will provide state grants to deploy wireless enhanced 911 service and will withhold those funds from states that divert E911 charges on telecom bills for...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee on Wednesday called for the establishment of a federal grant program for the deployment of wireless enhanced 911 but said states that have diverted funds collected from mobile-phone subscribers should not be eligible. "We must stop states...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Software firms across Europe have developed myriad mobile applications aimed at the business market during the past few years, raising hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital to fund their development. But with few applications being widely used and businesses fearful of...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.—Cingular Wireless signed an agreement with TruePosition Inc. in which TruePosition's Wireless Location System will be deployed in Cingular's network as the carrier's enhanced 911 solution, the companies announced.TruePosition will install its location technology in unspecified portions of Cingular's network. The...
If we applied human attributes to mobile location services, they would be in preschool today, learning and acquiring the skills they will need to have a long and successful life in a world where bigger and tougher kids are always around the corner.While still...
WASHINGTON-Carriers last week overwhelmingly warned the Federal Communications Commission that while they will make their best efforts to meet implementation deadlines for enhanced 911 Phase II, they are concerned that solutions-whether they be handset, network or hybrid-will meet the time lines or accuracy requirements...
WASHINGTON-Network-based solutions to meet the wireless enhanced 911 Phase II mandate may be winning the battle with handset-based solutions because handsets are not available as the deadline looms for carriers to make a choice.While many of the largest carriers-including Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS and...
The underwriters of Vyyo Inc.'s recent initial public offering exercised their options to purchase the entire over-allotment of more than 1 million shares of common stock, bringing the total offering size to approximately 7.7 million shares at $13.50 per share. The underwriters included Banc...
The CDMA Development Group announced it plans to conduct trials of location technologies as part of an initiative to meet Federal Communications Commission wireless enhanced 911 requirements.Phase II of the FCC's E911 mandate requires wireless carriers to be able to provide to public-safety answering...
SAN RAMON, Calif.-US Wireless Corp. announced it has successfully completed testing its wireless E-911 caller location product, which exceeded the 125-meter range required by a 1996 Federal Communications Commission mandate.RadioCamera is a Pentium- and Windows NT-based hybrid geolocation system that analyzes the radio pattern...
If a 911 Public Safety Answering Point agrees to receive 911 calls from phones that have never been activated on a cellular network, wireless operators are obligated to pass the call, according to new government rules.Cellular operators who are not happy about that say...
