Verizon Wireless Backs Off E-911 Location-Accuracy Deal

摘要

Verizon Wireless is asking for what public safety considers a significant change in wireless location accuracy for E-911, an issue on the agenda for a vote at next week’s FCC meeting. In an agreement with the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International and the National Emergency Numbering Asociation, which the FCC was expected to ratify, Verizon and other CDMA carriers would have been allowed to exclude data from up to 15 percent of counties from being taken into account in assessing accuracy in pinpointing emergency calls, if the counties are forested. Verizon asked for a change to allow the carrier to exclude 15 percent of counties for any reason. APCO and NENA protested.