Upgrading emergency call centers around the nation for next generation...
Upgrading emergency call centers around the nation for next generation 911 technology may cost between $1.4 billion and $2.6 billion, FCC Engineering Fellow Henning Schulzrinne said Thursday. “You should take these figures with a very large grain of salt,” Schulzrinne…
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said, because they come from a relatively small sample size, but it gives an estimate of what it will take to upgrade America’s emergency communications system. Schulzrinne spoke at a conference in Wheaton, Ill., hosted by Illinois Institute of Technology. The National Emergency Numbering Association’s top lobbyist, Trey Forgety, said the “next couple of rounds of regulation” are going to center around the need for imposing location technology in information and telecom networks so it’s easier for call centers to get data. “There seems to be general agreement that this is a standards-based method that works,” Forgety said. “It’s just a matter of cost -- and when.” Schulzrinne agreed, saying he was skeptical about carriers’ claims that location technology will impose heavy costs upon them. He pointed out that Thursday morning he had gotten a message from Verizon saying that the company was now going to put targeted ads on his FiOS home page using location data.