The blame game.

RCR Wireless News, August, 2001 by SMITH, HILARY

Carriers likely target for missed E911 deadlines It could be your best friend, your grandfather or your 16-year-old son who is trapped, delirious, bleeding and in pain and all he has to help him get through the next several agonizing moments is a wireless phone and a 911 dispatcher. Chances are right now, however, that unless he can tell the operator where he is calling from, help is further away than he thinks.

Such stories, involving real people in real emergencies, have been told to the Federal Communications Commission for many months, quickly followed by the question: Why are you allowing this to happen? Certainly the FCC, wireless carriers or anyone else for that matter does not wish to see another life endangered because a wireless...

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