Pending FCC inquiry into technical and operational issues involvi...
Pending FCC inquiry into technical and operational issues involving deployment of Enhanced 911 has taken on “new urgency,” public safety groups told agency’s Wireless Bureau Chief Thomas Sugrue Nov. 29. Assn. of Public-Safety Communications Officials International, National Assn. of…
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State Nine-One-One Administrators and National Emergency Number Assn. cited recent decision by FCC to name former Office of Engineering & Technology Chief Dale Hatfield to head inquiry. “The promised review has taken on a new urgency with the recent disclosures from several wireless carriers that they are unable to meet the performance benchmarks of their newly granted waivers of the Phase 2 requirements in the wireless E911 rules,” groups wrote. FCC recently opened comment period for petitions filed by Cingular, Nextel and Verizon Wireless seeking reconsideration of certain parts of orders on their E911 Phase 2 waiver requests. Petitions contend that Commission improperly adopted strict liability standard for future compliance.