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Despite “a substantial strain of caution in the initial comments...

Despite “a substantial strain of caution in the initial comments received” by the FCC, consumers can’t wait seven to 10 years for text-to-911 to become “a reality,” the National Emergency Number Association said in a filing at the FCC. NENA…

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CEO Brian Fontes and others from the group recently met with FCC officials, the group said (http://xrl.us/bmraw8). No review of existing text-to-911 solutions has been undertaken in sufficient detail or sufficiently absent artificial constraints to permit NENA to articulate specific recommendations about which solutions are operationally and economically viable for public safety answering points, consumers, and carriers, NENA said: “NENA committed, however, to conducting such a review with respect to PSAPs (at a minimum) and to communicate its findings to the Commission in short order.”