Hawaii’s Enhanced 911 Board asked the FCC to “take affirmative action...
Hawaii’s Enhanced 911 Board asked the FCC to “take affirmative action that will enable the deployment of text-to-9-1-1,” Chairman Clayton Tom and Executive Director Thera Bradshaw said in a filing. The Hawaii Enhanced 911 board supports FCC efforts to impose…
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text-to-911, they wrote. “We encourage the Commission’s action as soon as possible to ensure at least the basic requirement that wireless carriers deliver 9-1-1 text messages to Public Safety Answering Points that are ready and willing to accept texting.” The board said it also wants the FCC to require the use of a “bounce back” message that would alert the sender “that they need to make a 9-1-1 voice call when a text cannot be delivered to a PSAP.” While the board knows additional compliance deadlines and other rules for text-to-911 need to be considered in a further notice of proposed rulemaking, “we encourage the Commission not to delay the first step and to adopt basic requirements now,” Tom and Bradshaw said (http://xrl.us/bnzuec).