Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing...
Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and a coalition of other advocacy groups for the deaf and hard of hearing told the FCC in a filing released Monday that the agency should authorize Progeny to deploy its E-911…
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locator service on the 902-928 MHz Multilateration Location and Monitoring Service band. The coalition encouraged the FCC to complete its review of Progeny’s request and encourage wireless carriers to incorporate Progeny’s service and related locator technologies into their networks. Ensuring reliable access to emergency services is a “major concern” for the advocacy groups and Gallaudet University’s Technology Access Program, which also supports the Progeny service, the coalition said. “Accurate location information is a critical element in 9-1-1 response, and the need to locate 911 callers is even more acute in the case of TTY and text-to-911 ‘callers’ who may be unable to provide their location with the speed or accuracy of traditional voice callers,” the coalition said. Progeny’s service will answer the “limitations of existing location identification technologies,” which often cannot accurately locate callers indoors -- and particularly in multi-story structures, the coalition said (http://bit.ly/ZlIyq0).