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911 Enable Helps VoIP Service Providers Meet New FCC Rules Regarding 9-1-1 Calling: The Federal Communications Commission FCC recently adopted new 911 rules for VoIP service providers VSPs. These rules, set out in the NET 911 Improvement Act signed into law by President Bush in July, require that VSPs have access to the 911 system and that their customers be able to make...; Tags: E911, FCC, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, VOIP; Research articles 2008-10-29
Greenwich Hospital Adds E911 to Its Amcom Suite: Amcom E911 Will Help Manage Hospital's Complex Emergency Response Challenges MINNEAPOLIS -- Greenwich Hospital, a member of the Yale New Haven Health System and an academic affiliate of the Yale University School of Medicine, has selected Amcom Software's Site Alert E911 emergency call identification software to automatically provide information...; Tags: Benefits, call-center, E911, HEALTHCARE, hospital, SOFTWARE, Yale University; Research articles 2008-05-21
High-Accuracy Location-based Services Key to Offsetting Federally Mandated E911 Costs for Carriers: PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The U.S. Federal Government has mandated automatic location identification for cell phones as a means for emergency responders to quickly locate 911 dialers. Fortunately, the billions of dollars required to implement this mandate can be leveraged by U.S. carriers to produce commercial Location-Based Services LBS. LBS...; Tags: carrier, E911, Frost & Sullivan, mobile, phone, U.S., Wi-Fi, WIRELESS; Research articles 2008-04-29
VoIP Public Safety Act On Its Way To The House: The U.S. Senate gave the nod to the "IP-Enabled Voice Communications and Public Safety Act (S.428)," with two key provisions authored by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. It now goes to the House for consideration. S.428 would...; Tags: E911, FCC, Government, IP, NETWORKING, U.S. Senate, VoIP; Research articles 2008-03-10
How accurate E911?: I believe the story titled "FCC to Require Full E911 Adherence by 2012" would have been much more useful if it actually mentioned what the accuracy requirements are. --Chris Lund Technical Director, Honeywell Guidance and Navigation COE Minneapolis, Minnesota Editor's Reply: The FCC Phase II...; Tags: E911, FCC, Government; Research articles 2007-11-01

Location standards upped: FCC adds muscle, urgency to E911: The Federal Communications Commission FCC chose September 11 for its vote on an order to strengthen E911 location standards. The new order will require wireless carriers to test and comply with E911 location accuracy standards within a smaller geographic area, the Public Safety Answering Point PSAP. The choice of September...; Tags: E911, FCC, Government, standards, WIRELESS; Research articles 2007-10-01
FCC Burns The Near-Midnight Oil As Votes Are Tallied: It's gotten to be a habit at the Federal Communications Commission FCC to push back the normal start time (9:30 a.m. or 10 a.m.) of its monthly open meeting, but the agency really pushed the envelope, keeping the votes and reporters on hold until 8:45 p.m. last...; Tags: carrier, commission, compliance, E911, FCC, Government, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS; Research articles 2007-09-17
Report shows E911 holes remain in wireless, VoIP.(Upfront): Byline: JEFFREY SILVA A new report finds location-based wireless emergency service is not always reliable, one of several structural problems with the nation's 911 regime that lawmakers and public-safety officials said needs to be overhauled to accommodate new communications technologies and...; Tags: E911, FCC, VoIP, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS; Research articles 2007-04-16
Martin grilled over Hatfield dismissal.: Byline: JEFFREY SILVA Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.), vice chairman of the House telecom subcommittee, accused Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin of misleading Congress on abruptly terminating a contract for a new enhanced 911 study days after agency staff learned of key...; Tags: chairman, E911, FCC, Government, wireless; Research articles 2007-03-19
Public Safety Braces Against Reruns Of VoIP's 911 Loopholes: Lobbying groups for emergency-response and public-safety groups this past week appeared to be concerned about legislation pending in the U.S. Congress to mandate the Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP business' participation in the national enhanced 911 (E911) calling system as federal lawmakers recess for electioneering. ...; Tags: Administration, E911, FCC, IP, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, U.S. Senate, VOIP; Research articles 2006-10-02
Pushing E911, locating VoIP: Cell phone users will make an estimated 82 million wireless 911 calls this year. In many cases, emergency responders will not know how to reach them unless the callers are conscious, cogent, and capable of precisely communicating their location. Wireless carriers and public safety answering points PSAPs have logged...; Tags: E911, General Accounting Office, NETWORKING, phone, Telephony, VoIP, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS; Research articles 2006-05-01
FCC gives waiver to wireless carries.(TOP NEWS)(Federal Communications Committee )(Brief article): The Federal Communications Committee granted waivers to small wireless companies to comply with enhanced 911 (E911) mandates. This has been done for big companies, also. Though this may have been in effect in the past, sluggishness on the part of the companies triggered its implementation now....; Tags: E911, FCC, waiver, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS; Research articles 2006-04-01
Wireless E911 deployment progressing; technology years away in some states.(News Roundup)(Brief article): Significant progress has been made towards implementing wireless E911 nationwide, reported the Government Accountability Office, but full implementation is still years away in many locations. E911 is deployed in two phases. In Phase I, the network identifies the cell tower or cell site that...; Tags: E911, General Accounting Office, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS; Research articles 2006-03-21
NENA Pushes VoIP, Next-Gen E911 Agenda: During its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., last week, the National Emergency Number Association NENA sought to address the sticky issues clinging to enhanced 911 (E911) calling services by offering suggestions on Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP deployment and by releasing a report with a "blueprint" ...; Tags: E911, FCC, IP, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, VOIP; Research articles 2006-03-13
Congress Gets Grief On Lack Of E911 Funding: Every member of the U.S. Congress last week received a little heartburn regarding the fact the Administration and federal lawmakers never appropriated the monies promised to help modernize official 911 emergency call handling services under the ENHANCE 911 Act of 2004. The ENHANCE 911 Act was...; Tags: E911, Government, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2006-02-27
Congress wants to "help" you again.(CONSULTANT'S CORNER): Over the past two decades, the telecom sector has evolved, merged and reinvented itself several times over. Now, yet another reincarnation is on the horizon. Just 10 years after the passage of the Telecom Act of 1996, new draft legislation is circulating in Congress. ...; Tags: broadband, E911, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, U.S. Congress, VOIP; Research articles 2006-02-01
VoIP E911--what a mess!(capital currents): Two years ago, in my December 2003 CED column (http://www.cedmagazine.com/ced/2003/1203/12cc.htm), I wrote about the problems of integrating voice-over-IP VoIP services into the country's E911 network. It was not until early 2005 that it exploded onto the front page, when the FCC first became aware of an...; Tags: E911, FCC, Government, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, VOIP; Research articles 2006-01-01
VoIP Takes Page from Wireless E911.(Enhanced wireless 911)( Voice over Internet Protocol): By Mark Rockwell Service providers hope to take a relevant page or two from wireless E911 playbook. WASHINGTON-Deadlines for VoIP companies to implement E911 capabilities came and went in November, and VoIP providers are still waiting to...; Tags: E911, FCC, IP, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, VOIP, waiver, WIRELESS; Research articles 2006-01-01
As calendar turns to '06, operators fail to meet E-911 compliance.(Calendar): Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER At the stroke of midnight Saturday, all the wireless carriers that selected a handset solution for E-911 Phase II rules failed to meet the FCC's requirements, and as RCR Wireless News went to press it was unclear if...; Tags: carrier, compliance, E911, FCC, Government, handset, waiver; Research articles 2006-01-02
DTV hard date tripped up in unrelated budget delay.: Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER The wireless industry was as close to getting its hands on 700 MHz spectrum as it ever has been. A hard date had been set for auctioning broadcast spectrum as part of the transition to digital TV services. The...; Tags: E911, spectrum, TVs, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2005-12-26