Public Safety, Industry Spar On Elimination of NSI Rule

摘要

The public safety community and wireless entities generally disagree on whether the FCC should eliminate its requirement that wireless carriers forward to public safety answering points (PSAPs) 911 calls from non-service-initialized (NSI) handsets. Public safety entities say the Commission should phase out the rule, citing what they say are a huge number of harassing or crank calls to PSAPs from NSI phones, while most wireless entities say the FCC should keep it, citing the benefits it provides legitimate callers.