Apple offered its views on a further notice of proposed...
Apple offered its views on a further notice of proposed rulemaking on text-to-911 set for a vote at Wednesday’s FCC meeting in calls with staff for the commissioners, according to an ex parte filing. Apple was represented by Paul Margie…
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of Wiltshire Grannis. “I suggested that, in addition to considering the important jurisdictional and technical questions concerning the application of any FCC text-to-911 rules to over-the-top texting mechanisms, the Commission should also make explicit in its forthcoming Further Notice of Proposed Ru1emaking that any proposed definition of covered applications includes only software that: (1) is installed on a device that determines the user’s location using a technology that meets the enhanced 911 requirements set forth in 47 C.F.R. § 20.18(h); and (2) independently enables the user to send text-based messages to and receive text-based messages from any valid North American Numbering Plan telephone number via the short message service protocol,” the filing said (http://xrl.us/bn5phb).