CTIA, Members Meet With FCC on Location-Based Routing
CTIA and member companies raised concerns about an FCC proposal that carriers more precisely route wireless 911 calls and texts to public safety answering points through location-based routing (LBR) (see 2212210047), in a meeting with staff from FCC Public Safety…
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and Wireless bureaus. “As wireless providers take different approaches to implementing LBR, CTIA noted that a wireless providers’ obligation to use LBR should be premised upon a valid PSAP request that includes the provision of the shapefiles, which are necessary for wireless providers to tailor their networks to unique geographies and PSAP boundaries,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 18-64: “For these reasons, CTIA also noted that non-nationwide wireless providers should have more time to deploy LBR within their networks than proposed in the NPRM.” CTIA also offered counsel on rules for providing location information with next-generation text solutions. The group “encouraged the Commission to focus on the use of LBR for real-time text and ensure that wireless providers have the flexibility to implement LBR for text-to-911 in ways that are consistent with their unique network and handset configurations.” AT&T, Dish Network, Southern Linc, T-Mobile and Verizon participated in the meeting.