Sprint PCS told FCC that recent round of filings on providing Enh...
Sprint PCS told FCC that recent round of filings on providing Enhanced 911 Phase 2 capability showed LECs hadn’t completed required network upgrades by June 30, delay that has disrupted E911 deployment schedules for wireless operators. “The Commission should…
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act expeditiously to correct this situation,” Sprint said. Carrier said Commission had ordered Sprint and other operators to complete installation of all valid Phase 2 requests that were issued by June 30 by year-end. Delay by LECs in upgrading their automatic location information (ALI) databases needed to support Phase 2 “has negatively impacted Sprint Phase 2 deployment activity and continues to do so,” filing said. LECs late last month had responded to request by FCC Wireless Bureau Chief Thomas Sugrue to provide update on progress they had made on interconnections needed for E911 deployment. Public safety groups and some wireless carriers have pointed to readiness of LECs to provide their piece of E911 Phase 2 implementation as missing link in deployment lags, although LECs last month described extent to which they had put network and cost recovery components in place. Sprint said it agreed with most of Verizon Wireless plan floated to FCC recently on proposed change in that area. Verizon proposal would have FCC stipulate that carrier wouldn’t be in violation of Phase 2 deadlines in cases in which public safety answering point couldn’t yet receive and use more detailed location information because LEC or PSAP hadn’t completed necessary network upgrades. Sprint suggested several changes in Verizon’s plan. “This rule modification does not address the current scheduling crisis created by the LEC delay in deployment of Phase 2 systems,” Sprint said. If LECs complete proposed tariff filings and deployment schedules for database changes in Sept.-Oct. time frame, wireless carriers will be hit by glut of new, valid Phase 2 requests on which to act, Sprint said. Under Verizon proposal, those requests, which had been scheduled to roll out over 14-month period, could need to be deployed in as little as 90 days, carrier said. “Sprint’s deployment schedule cannot be compressed to this extent,” it said. “Accordingly, the new rule should be applied prospectively.”