The failure of the public safety answering points...
The failure of the public safety answering points in a CalNENA report to receive wireless Phase II location information wasn’t a failure of AT&T to deliver such information but a failure of those PSAPs to request it, said the carrier…
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in an FCC filing (http://bit.ly/15NXpJV). Executives met with the Public Safety Bureau Friday following T-Mobile’s meeting (CD Sept 6 p10) to discuss an ex parte filing by CalNENA on Aug. 12 that showed a significant drop in wireless Phase II location data reporting by five major wireless carriers to the PSAPs (CD Aug 14 p4). CalNENA’s data and graphs raised concerns about location yield, or the quantity of E911 locates, not the location accuracy, said AT&T. The company’s investigation into location yield and location accuracy shows AT&T’s 911 network is functioning correctly, and AT&T believes “the difference in CalNENA’s data and our own is related to the time it takes to provide more accurate locates, as well as the PSAP’s own processes and practices,” said the carrier. CalNENA didn’t comment.