FCC Brings Focus to E911
Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin plans to issue new rules for testing location-based E911 service, as well as a call for public comment on the technology itself. The FCC chair plans to rule soon that testing of location-based enhanced 911 wireless accuracy be conducted at local emergency call centers rather than at the state level. The Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International petitioned the FCC for such a move several years ago.
APCO will soon release its Project LOCATE (Locate Our Citizens in Times of Emergencies) report. The report studied the accuracy of location information that public safety answering points get from 911 calls made from wireless phones.
Martin plans to seek public comment on E911 technological advances and prospects for an across-the-board industry deployment of a hybrid approach to E911, which draws on both GPS technology in handsets as well as network triangulation techniques.
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