Southern Linc Seeks Waiver of FCC's Z-Axis Deadline
Southern Linc asked the FCC for a waiver until April 3, 2026, to deploy z-axis technology for providing vertical location information for wireless 911 calls throughout its network. The carrier said it’s the only Tier III non-nationwide provider required to…
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meet a deadline of Sunday because it serves customers in a top 25 market. Southern Linc’s “limited resources as a smaller Tier III provider, and the unavailability of a compliant vertical location solution altogether present unique and unusual factual circumstances that make full compliance with the applicable deployment deadlines unfeasible,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 07-114.