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Following AT&T's merger with BellSouth in December 2006, Cingular Wireless is now solely owned by AT&T.
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TruePosition wins Cingular E911 pact.(News)
TruePosition Inc. has entered a multi-year agreement with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. to provide the carrier location-based E-911 technology for its GSM networks. Cingular conducted tests last fall with TruePosition's U-TDOA location solution on its W TruePosition Inc. has entered a multi-year agreement with Cingular...
Cingular, T-Mobile On E-911 Hot Seat
The good news is that Cingular Wireless plans to have deployed GSM/GPRS coverage over more than 50 percent of its potential customer base by the end of this year. The bad news is the Federal Communications Commission is taking enforcement action against the carrier for failing to meet enhanced-911 location...
No E911 extension, Cingular drops EOTD plans. (Late News).
The Federal Communications Commission late Friday rejected pleas from Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile USA Inc. to extend their waivers for enhanced 911 compliance and referred the issue to the FCC's Enforcement Bureau. Both carriers had sough The Federal Communications Commission late Friday rejected...
Report reveals E911 troubles. (E911: making the call).(Brief Article)
New revelations came to light last week in the ongoing controversy over the commercial readiness of enhanced observed time difference of arrival location technology. Initially, all U.S. GSM providers had selected the technology to meet the FCC-mandated enhanced911 Phase II requirements, but at least one carrier...
E-OTD handsets next E-911 battle.
WASHINGTON--Whether and when enhanced observed time difference of arrival will ever meet Federal Communications Commission requirements is the next battle in the fight to deploy wireless enhanced 911. All of the nationwide GSM carriers--Cingul WASHINGTON--Whether and when enhanced observed...
TruePosition and Cingular Wireless complete successful phase one. (Technology Trends).
In the first phase of the pre-deployment testing of its E911 technology conducted by Cingular Wireless and TruePosition, Inc., TruePosition's network-based Wireless Location System met the current FCC E911 mandate, with location accuracy measurements In the first phase of the pre-deployment testing of its E911 ...
AT&T faces E911 fines. (News).(Brief Article)
AT&T Wireless faces two fines from the FCC this week, one possibly very substantial, according to FCC sources. The FCC will ask AT&T Wireless today to pay about $100,000 for missing its Oct. 1 deadline for Phase II enhanced 911 implementation, a source says. The payment...
Cingular fined $100,000 for missed E911 deadline. (News).
WASHINGTON--Cingular Wireless L.L.C. agreed on May 2 to pay the government $100,000 because it did not begin deploying enhanced 911 Phase II services in its TDMA markets by the Oct 1 deadline. "We are pleased we were able to reach this ag...
E-911 Deadlines Set For Cingular's TDMA
Cingular Wireless would face multiple fines of more than $1 million each if it fails to meet deadlines for providing location information with 911 calls in its TDMA footprint, according to a consent decree released Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission. AT&T Wireless [AWE] also is negotiating a consent decree...
E911 progress reports send mixed signals. (News).
WASHINGTON--Carriers are making progress on implementing enhanced 911 services, but that doesn't mean they still don't have significant problems to overcome. That's the message the FCC got last week after the second installment of E911 progress reports was filed. One of...


