Bureau Sets for Comment Boulder Authority Recon Petition on Location Accuracy
The FCC Public Safety Bureau set a pleading cycle on a Boulder Emergency Telephone Service Authority petition for reconsideration on wireless location accuracy rules commissioners approved in November (see 1911220034). The order requires carriers to provide height above ellipsoid (HAE)…
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data from wireless calls to 911, within 3 meters accuracy for 80 percent of calls, starting in the largest markets in April 2021. The authority claimed in the December petition “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.” The authority said the commission should require wireless carriers to publish procedures for first responders to conduct tests of vertical location accuracy. Oppositions are due 15 days after Federal Register publication, replies 10 days later, in docket 07-114, the bureau said Wednesday.