Report shows E911 holes remain in wireless, VoIP.(Upfront)

RCR Wireless News, April, 2007

Byline: JEFFREY SILVA

A new report finds location-based wireless emergency service is not always reliable, one of several structural problems with the nation's 911 regime that lawmakers and public-safety officials said needs to be overhauled to accommodate new communications technologies and increased emergency calls.

"There is a clear expectation that the PSAP (public safety answering point), as well as traditional first responders, will have consistent and accurate locating data delivered with all wireless 911 calls to the PSAP. The wireless location accuracy performance of the carriers in the designated `PSAP Test Area' did not meet these expectations,'' stated the Project Locate report. The findings were released by the Association of...

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