The FCC Public Safety Bureau Friday released the agenda for...
The FCC Public Safety Bureau Friday released the agenda for its Oct. 24 workshop on improving indoor location accuracy for emergency calls made on wireless phones (http://xrl.us/bntua3). The meeting is to be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Commission…
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Meeting Room at FCC headquarters. Four panels are on tap. Topics covered include: “How Improving Indoor Location Accuracy Will Assist Public Safety” and “Wireless Carrier Perspectives on Improving Indoor Location Accuracy.” Attendees will get an update on a testbed project. “Consumers are increasingly abandoning landline telephony in favor of wireless communications, and a majority of wireless calls are now made indoors,” said a notice from the bureau. “However, during an emergency, wireless carriers are often unable to provide a 911 call center with accurate location information from the caller when the call is made indoors."