About 80% of the 240 million phone calls received by 911 public safety answering points (PSAPs) come from wireless callers. The goal of regulators is that technology automatically identify the location of callers even if callers don’t know where they are or are unable to speak the information because of injury or constraint by an … Continue Reading
Back in February the FCC released its new E911 standards designed to improve E911 location capability. As we reported in March, most of those new standards were to take effect in April … except for a small handful that happened to be “information collections” and thus subject to the hilariously named Paperwork Reduction Act. Thanks … Continue Reading
In the wake of an impressively cooperative response to the Commission's 2014 proposals, the FCC has established a new set of E911 location standards.… Continue Reading
The upper half of LightSquared's proposed band, at 1675-1680 MHz, is not, at first glance, a good home for a high-powered cellular-type network. Remember those satellite videos showing the approach of Hurricane Sandy? Chances are they came through this band.… Continue Reading
Several commercial users of unlicensed devices at 902-928 MHz have criticized an LMS provider's interference study as having used too few and non-representative devices, under conditions artificially rigged to understate interference.… Continue Reading
An unlicensed device must accept interference from any source. Why, then, is the FCC asking whether LMS interferes with unlicensed use?… Continue Reading
GPS users were silent for most of the LightSquared proceeding, only to come forward with their objections at a relatively late stage.… Continue Reading
New E911 rules designed to make it easier to locate you (and anybody else with a personal communications device) are now set to take effect in November.… Continue Reading
Deadlines for comments and reply comments have been set with respect to on the Commission's latest effort to improve the accuracy of E-911 location identification capabilities.… Continue Reading
Even as privacy advocates are getting increasingly nervous about the extent to which our communications devices keep tabs on our whereabouts, the FCC is looking to make it easier to monitor our location more precisely and over a broader range of devices.… Continue Reading
