Colorado Authority Seeks Recon of FCC Vertical Access Rules
The Boulder Emergency Telephone Service Authority asked the FCC to reconsider part of rules commissioners approved 4-0 in November requiring carriers to provide height above ellipsoid data from wireless calls to 911, within 3 meters accuracy for 80 percent of…
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calls, starting in the largest markets in April 2021 (see 1911220034). “It was arbitrary and capricious, and an abuse of discretion, for the Commission to have declined to adopt proof of performance testing at limited locations in the 50 markets in which carriers will be required to provide Z-axis location data, on the grounds that it would be impractical and burdensome,” BRETSA said, noting carriers have conceded more testing is necessary. “It is inappropriate for the Commission to reject a new proposal as inconsistent with a prior Commission decision, when the accuracy of the assumptions underlying the prior decision have been drawn into question by the very parties implementing that decision,” the authority said. The petition was posted Friday in docket 07-114.