The FCC should “defer all the issues” raised by the...
The FCC should “defer all the issues” raised by the upcoming text-to-911 mandate to a further notice of proposed rulemaking, rather than to “bifurcate” them in an order and subsequent further notice, T-Mobile USA officials told the FCC’s Public Safety…
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and Homeland Security Bureau chief Friday (http://xrl.us/bnrieh). If the commission issues an order requiring future text-to-911 capabilities, it should not impose an implementation schedule because there’s no basis for determining the appropriate timeframe, the carrier said. The pace of third-party technical development, procurement time for modification to networks, and the need for testing can all affect implementation periods, it said. When the service is implemented, it will require communications from 911 call centers, public safety and carriers that calling 911 is preferable to texting, it said. These challenges must “not be forced into a predetermined timeline,” T-Mobile said, arguing it would be “arbitrary and capricious to set the implementation time now."