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New Capabilities from Apple Improve Location Information and 911 Call Delivery

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Last week, Apple announced two new capabilities that 911 agencies should be aware of. Read Here: Precise location for text-enabled jurisdictions Since text-to-911 became available, PSAPs have received only limited location information with a text session: typically the location of the tower, or the “centroid” of the cell sector serving the user’s device. There have been
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FCC ADOPTS RULES TO HELP AMERICANS REACH 911 AND RECEIVE HELP FROM FIRST RESPONDERS MORE QUICKLY

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WASHINGTON, August 1, 2019 — The Federal Communications Commission today adopted rules to help ensure that people who call 911 from multi-line telephone systems—which commonly serve hotels, office buildings, and campuses—can reach 911 and be quickly located by first responders. The new rules will also improve emergency response for people who call 911 from other
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FCC Announces the Membership of Two Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee Working Groups

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This Public Notice serves as notice that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has appointed members to serve on two Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC) working groups: (1) the Broadband Infrastructure Deployment Job Skills and Training Opportunities working group, and (2) the Increasing Broadband Investment in Low-Income Communities working group. The members of these working
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Improving Wireless Emergency Alerts and Community-Initiated Alerting

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I. INTRODUCTION 1. In this Order, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) grants a limited waiver of the Commission’s Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) rules to permit Participating Commercial Mobile Service (CMS) Providers to participate in an end-to-end test of WEA to be conducted by the Alamosa Regional
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PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU ANNOUNCES WORKSHOP TO PROMOTE USE OF MULTILINGUAL ALERTING DURING EMERGENCIES

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DA 19-359 Released: April 30, 2019 On Friday, June 28th, 2019, the Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau will host a public workshop to promote the use of multilingual emergency alerting to meet community needs. The workshop will include presentations covering, among other topics, the multilingual capabilities of the Emergency Alert System
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