911 Consultant Says Time Is Running Out on NG911 Transition
A nationwide transition to next-generation 911 “can’t wait another day,” 911 consultant Mark Fletcher said Wednesday in a "blog" filed in docket 25-208. “Each passing day widens the gap between what’s possible and what’s being delivered. The longer we continue…
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to fund repairs on copper lines and patchwork solutions, the more we drain resources that could have been building the resilient, data-rich, and fully interoperable networks NG911 demands.” The U.S. emergency communications network “is itself on the brink of an emergency,” Fletcher said. “The choice before us isn’t whether to modernize -- it’s whether to do it before the next crisis makes that decision for us.” The country should move forward “with deliberate speed and informed caution” on transitioning to NG911, he added.