APCO Seeks Changes to Draft FCC Z-Axis Order
APCO asked the FCC to change vertical location accuracy rules set for a July 16 commissioner vote (see 2006250062). “The draft Order will add confusion, effectively creating major loopholes in an already unclear set of requirements,” said a Tuesday filing…
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in docket 07-114: “This will empower carriers to assert a watered-down interpretation of the rules and avoid the investments necessary to provide dispatchable location, floor labels, or z-axis information in the manner that emergency communications centers and first responders have been promised.” Eliminate loopholes, APCO said: “The draft Order would create significant loopholes that a) would allow carriers to comply with the vertical location information requirements simply by deploying dispatchable location technology, and b) render meaningless the specious 2022 target to provide dispatchable location.”