FCC Grants E-911 Location Accuracy Waivers to Small Rural Providers
The FCC Wireless Bureau granted E-911 location accuracy waiver requests to multiple small wireless providers serving rural areas. The petitioners said public safety answering points in their areas either can’t receive and use Phase II E-911 location data or haven’t…
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requested that service, the bureau said in a Friday order in docket 07-114. Each waiver ends six months after the petitioner receives a request for Phase II location data from a PSAP, and is conditioned on the petitioner notifying the FCC within 30 days of receipt of a valid request. It denied a request for a blanket waiver of Section 20.18(i) by NTCA, which said the issues raised by the petitioners applied broadly to all similarly situated rural wireless operators. The bureau said it wants only individual waiver requests. Also, the FCC granted a T-Mobile request to withdraw another waiver petition.