FCC Wireless Bureau seeks comment on revised wireless E911 Phase ...
FCC Wireless Bureau seeks comment on revised wireless E911 Phase 2 waiver request filed by Cingular Wireless. In its original request July 6, carrier asked for limited waiver of Phase 2 rules to permit it to deploy hybrid network…
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and handset E911 system. Cingular had said it would deploy Enhanced Observed Time Difference of Arrival technology in GSM networks and switch-based location technology for Time Division Multiple Access (TMDA) networks. Bureau started pleading cycle July 11. Before comments became due, Cingular on July 24 withdrew request for waiver for TDMA networks. It said it was concluding tests to validate switch-based technology it planned to deploy on TMDA networks. Cingular resubmitted waiver request for TDMA networks Aug. 30. It now seeks to deploy TruePosition network-based location technology on TDMA/Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) networks. TruePosition guaranteed to Cingular that technology would meet Commission’s accuracy requirements for handsets and had committed to deploying technology on 2,000 TDMA/AMPS cell sites in 2002, which should satisfy all outstanding Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) requests for Phase 2 information, carrier said. From 2003 forward, Cingular said it would be able to deploy Phase 2 within 6 months of PSAP request and TruePosition technology would give it capacity to be fully deployed on TDMA/AMPS networks by late 4th quarter 2004 or early 2005, depending on PSAP requests. Cingular said it hadn’t tested current version of TruePosition technology, and would be unable to do so in short term, and sought “contingent enforcement relief” in event accuracy and deployments commitments weren’t met. Comments are due Sept. 19, replies Sept. 26.