Virginia County Urges Flexibility on Routing Calls to 911
The Fairfax County, Virginia, 9-1-1 System urged the FCC to allow third-party applications and providers to deliver supplementary location information for wireless 911 calls directly to public safety answering points without going through carrier’s routing elements. “To stifle the ability…
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of third-party providers and applications by mandating they only work through the carrier interconnect routing elements is against the public interest,” the county said in docket 18-64. “Several recent cases in the news have demonstrated that lives of emergency callers have been lost due to the inability to locate a caller because of the inadequacy of the current wireless location technologies in use in the 9-1-1 industry.”