Solution Is Available for Better Locating Calls to 911, Precision Broadband Says
Industry is wrong in claims no technology now identifies wireless callers to 911 with more specificity (see 1906190011), Precision Broadband CEO Charles Simon told aides to Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Geoffrey Starks. “Precision Broadband has a solution, including a working…
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prototype, that offers floor level and unit location data -- same as landline telephone service. We contend that the wireless carriers’ test beds have been designed to validate the [National Emergency Address Database] (for dispatchable location) and device sensor-based z-axis altitude technologies.,” the company said, posted Thursday in docket 07-114. “Such limited test plans, by design, exclude alternative dispatchable solutions like Precision Broadband’s Fixed Broadband 911 system.”