CTIA Explains Work on Wireless Location Accuracy Test Bed
CTIA officials offered some details on industry efforts to test wireless location accuracy technology, said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 07-114, on a call with staff from the FCC Public Safety Bureau. The FCC approved an order in January…
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requiring carriers to improve their performance in identifying the location of wireless calls to 911 (see 1501290066). Stage one of the test bed “will involve indoor testing of nationwide wireless carriers’ deployed horizontal location technologies in Atlanta and San Francisco," CTIA said. “The test results will be used to support carrier compliance reporting for the interim benchmarks.” Stage two “will involve location technology vendor testing of near-term emerging horizontal and vertical location technologies that are not currently deployed by the nationwide wireless carriers,” also in Atlanta and San Francisco, CTIA said. “Beyond Stage 2, there will be additional rounds of testing as needed, by location technology vendors or carriers.”