<p>The FCC’s wireless 911 rules apply to all wireless licensees,
broadband Personal Communications Service (PCS) licensees and certain
Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) licensees. Mobile Satellite Service (MSS)
providers, however, are currently excluded. </p>
<p><strong>The FCC’s basic 911 rules</strong> require wireless service
providers to transmit all 911 calls to a PSAP, regardless of whether the
caller subscribes to the provider’s service or not. </p>
<p><strong>Phase I Enhaced 911 (E911) rules</strong> require wireless
service providers to provide the PSAP with the telephone number of the
originator of a wireless 911 call and the location of the cell site or
base station transmitting the call.</p>
<p><strong>Phase II E911 rules</strong> require wireless service
providers to provide more precise location information to PSAPs;
specifically, the latitude and longitude of the caller. This information
must be accurate to within 50 to 300 meters depending upon the type of
location technology used. </p>
<p>The FCC recently required wireless carriers to provide more precise
location information to PSAPs. As a result, wireless carriers will be
required to comply with the FCC’s location accuracy rules at either a
county-based or PSAP-based geographic level. The new standards apply to
outdoor measurements only, as indoor use poses unique obstacles.</p>
<h4>Compliance </h4>
<p>The FCC recently established benchmarks that wireless service
providers must meet over a period of eight years – providing wireless
carriers with a reasonable amount of time to meet the agency’s more
stringent location accuracy requirements. </p>
<p>Beginning in 2011, wireless service providers have been required to
file with the FCC a list of counties, or portions of counties, that they
seek to exclude from the location accuracy requirements. The FCC will
permit wireless carriers to exclude counties, or portions of counties,
only where wireless carriers determine that providing location accuracy
is limited, or technologically impossible, because of either heavy
forestation or the inability to triangulate a caller’s location.
Wireless carriers must report any changes to their exclusion lists
within thirty days of such changes. The exclusion lists and changes must
be reported in the record of the FCC’s docketed proceeding
addressing location accuracy, <a title="PS Docket No. 07-114" href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=07-114">PS Docket No. 07-114</a>, which is publicly available on the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) webpage. </p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Carlos Alvarez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carlos@televolve.com" target="_blank">carlos@televolve.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
We have a customer who wants us to block 911 on the phones that they give to key employees to take home. They don't want to pay fees for 911 service at each home (which is stupid, since it's so cheap, but that's a digression). I told them this is "illegal" but they asked to see the law, and I can't actually find something that says so. Yet that's the common knowledge around the industry. I do have the FCC documents that require an ITSP to provide the service, but the customer contends it doesn't apply to this specific case.<div>
<br></div><div>So two questions...</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone here allow their customers to do this?</div><div><br></div><div>What is the best document to give the customer to support our position?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br><div>Carlos Alvarez</div><div>TelEvolve</div><div><a href="tel:602-889-3003" value="+16028893003" target="_blank">602-889-3003</a></div><div><br></div>
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