NENA Raises 911 Concerns on Transition From Copper
The National Emergency Number Association urged the FCC to require carriers to continue to support time-division multiplexing (TDM) as they move to IP-based services. Many 911 authorities aren’t ready to receive next-generation 911 traffic and depend on "increasingly scarce and…
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expensive copper wire service and will have to continue doing so for a number of years,” said a filing last week in docket 25-304. “Typically, local and state governments operate on a 5-year purchasing schedule for infrastructure upgrades, and NG9-1-1 transitions are no exception.”