Cingular Wireless told the FCC last week in a quarterly report on...

of public safety answering points (PSAPs). Cingular said it had received 1,302 PSAP requests for Phase 2 service and 97.5% of them were in service or “in progress.” Of the remaining 33, 7 have been withdrawn and 26 are invalid, the filing said. Cingular said classification of a PSAP request as “invalid” under the Commission’s reporting requirements didn’t mean it had stopped work on rollout efforts. “In most instances, Cingular continues to move forward with its deployment efforts,” it said. So far, it said it had received 320 PSAP requests for Phase 2 services on its GSM networks. “Deployments will occur on a geographic basis such that PSAPs in proximity to one another requesting E911 Phase 2 service will be deployed together,” Cingular said. It said that kind of prioritization of requests would maximize the number of subscribers and PSAPs that would receive service while meeting FCC requirements. On its TDMA networks, Cingular said it had deployed Phase 2-compliant technology at 5,274 cell sites. It told the FCC it had completed end-to-end testing and had begun providing caller location information to PSAPs from 4,104 of those sites. “Because of PSAP readiness issues, however, PSAPs were unable to receive location information from 1,170 of the 5,274 cell sites,” it said. Cingular said it had received 437 requests for Phase 2 service on its TDMA networks. “Cingular has deployed its location solution in its service area that covers 363 of these requests; the 60 remaining PSAPs are planned for deployment,” it said. Of the 363 deployments, 133 PSAPs weren’t ready to accept Phase 2 data, it said. Many of the public safety centers weren’t able to complete end-to-end testing of Phase 2 because of readiness problems, including a lack of certain upgraded equipment, it said.