Nearly half of all calls received by 911...
Nearly half of all calls received by 911 emergency centers in North Carolina from wireless phones in June didn’t include accurate location information, said the Find Me 911 Coalition in a news release Tuesday (http://yhoo.it/1bdJ67e). Statewide data released by the…
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FCC and analyzed by the Find Me 911 Coalition showed 211,241 of the 447,918 wireless calls received by 911 emergency centers in June lacked accurate “Phase II” location information that displays the location of the caller, said the coalition. It said the problem has worsened over the past year, as the percentage of calls lacking such information has risen from 36 percent in June 2012 to 47 percent this June. Carriers have been locked in a fight with the coalition, which they say is funded by technology provider TruePosition and has been spreading bad information to the states (CD Nov 19 p1). AT&T, T-Mobile and the Carolinas Wireless Association did not immediately respond to requests for comment.