Granting CTIA’s petition for clarification, FCC explained that Ju...
Granting CTIA’s petition for clarification, FCC explained that June 30 deadline for digital wireless providers to transmit 911 calls using TTY devices didn’t mean they had to support proprietary enhanced TTY protocols by that deadline. Thus, said FCC in…
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order issued Dec. 28: “CTIA’s assertion that the Commission improperly imposed an obligation upon digital wireless carriers to incorporate support for proprietary enhanced protocols into their digital-TTY solutions by June 30, 2002 is incorrect.” CTIA had expressed concern because wireless industry was concentrating on 911 solutions for standard 45.45 Baudot protocol because there was embedded base of users there and TTY manufacturers were hesitant to share data on proprietary enhanced protocols, FCC said. However, Commission said, “cooperative broad-based industry coordination” had solved some of problem. “TTY manufacturers have now decided to modify their products so that they will default to Baudot when connected to digital wireless devices,” FCC said. “Accordingly, the implementation of digital wireless TTY solutions based on Baudot signaling will not preclude users of TTY’s with enhanced protocol features from placing 911 calls on digital wireless phones.”