The FCC asked for comments on progress made by states in promptin...
The FCC asked for comments on progress made by states in prompting E911 solutions for multiline telephone systems (MLTSs). The agency said it had left the problem to the states and wants information and comment about state statutes and…
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regulations. MLTSs -- which serve office buildings, university campuses and other multiple phone sites -- make locating E911 calls difficult, the FCC said in a Dec. 10 notice. That’s because the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) that gets the call often can’t identify the specific phone being used by the caller. Instead the call may be attributed to the MLTS’s outgoing trunk. The Commission said it was particularly interested in any state actions “based on model legislation such as that proposed by the National Emergency Number Assn. and the Assn. of Public-Safety Communications Officials.” Comments are due 45 days after the notice is published in the Federal Register.