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NENA Urges FCC to Focus on 911 Issues in Copper Retirement Proceeding

The National Emergency Number Association filed reply comments in the FCC's copper retirement proceeding last week, urging the agency to require carriers to continue supporting time-division multiplexing (TDM) as it moves to IP-based services. Next-generation 911 deployment “remains uneven, and…

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many jurisdictions continue to rely on TDM for 9-1-1 today,” said a filing Thursday in docket 25-208. “During the transition to NG9-1-1, there is an interim period where both TDM-based Enhanced 9-1-1 and IP-based NG9-1-1 networks need to be maintained.”