TruePosition Lawyer Lobbies Public Safety Bureau Against Industry 911 Location Accuracy Plan
An agreement between wireless carriers and public safety organizations proposing to help improve 911 location accuracy doesn't "do what it purports to do," an attorney for TruePosition said. Numerous stakeholders, including public safety representatives, and members of the emergency medical…
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community "have all specifically criticized the agreement and supported the FCC adopting its proposed rules," Venable attorney Jamie Barnett said in an ex parte filing posted in docket 07-114. He referred to the consensus plan among AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, the APCO and the National Emergency Number Association filed last week (see 1411190064). It's a misnomer to call it a consensus since groups like the International Association of Fire Chiefs and the National Association of State EMS Officials "had the opportunity to review and sign the agreement but declined to do so," he said. The carriers set benchmarks, not for dispatchable address, but "for the adoption of technologies that they purport, without evidence, will be better than what they use now," he said. The filing was on a meeting with Public Safety Bureau staff.