AT&T to Upgrade North Carolina to NG-911 by 2020
North Carolina will upgrade to Next-Generation 911, connecting all 117 primary 911 centers through internet-based routing services and eventually enabling the centers to receive texts, pictures and video, the Department of Information Technology blogged Wednesday. It will replace an analog…
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system built in the 1960s, the IT agency said. The North Carolina 911 Board signed a $99 million, seven-year contract with AT&T to link the call centers through the AT&T ESInet by 2020, the agency said. The contract started Sept. 15, it said.