The FCC plans to move forward on text-to-911 “very soon,”...
The FCC plans to move forward on text-to-911 “very soon,” said Public Safety Bureau Chief David Turetsky Sunday at NARUC’s Baltimore meeting. Verizon and AT&T have voiced support and said they want to develop text-to-911 on a “large scale” in…
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2013, he said. Lives have been saved in state trials, he added, describing in detail how the system worked in Vermont. “There was a one-word text that was sent--it said ’suicide,'” Turetsky told the telecom subcommittee. “The 911 PSAP [public safety answering point] talked to the company, tracked down the likely address of the sender, and they saved his life. He was hanging, and they cut him down before he died.” Turetsky called the incident a “success story” for text-to-911, and also described the system working in a case of domestic abuse. Lives are at stake, he said, adding that he’s personally invested in making the system function: “If you detect a little bit of passion in my voice, you're right."