The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International has asked the FCC to reject a petition filed by CTIA urging the agency to eliminate a new rule that requires wifeless carriers to provide automatic bounce-back messages when consumers roaming on their networks initiate text-to-911 in an area where such serves are not available. But the National Emergency Number Association and some rural carriers support CTIA's petition. In a petition for reconsideration or, in the alternative, clarification filed in June in PS dockets 11-153 and 10-255, CTIA argued that it is not technically feasible for carriers to provide those bounce-back messages to consumers roaming on their networks. The group also said that the FCC had not provided adequate notice that it might adopt the new rule.
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