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Articles tagged with: E911
Cash-strapped states raid 911 funds
More than $200 million collected from cell phone users for upgrades to the 911 system has been diverted in the last two years to plug state budget holes, keep campaign promises and, in at least one case, buy police uniforms, an Associated Press analysis has found. more
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Research highlights deficiencies in Canada's proposed wireless E911 services
Canadian public safety experts view Canada as "late in the game" in adopting new rules to implement wireless enhanced emergency (e911) services and there is a definitive need for regulators to play a stronger role in setting national wireless e911 policies and standards, a new research study conducted by IDC Canada reveals. more
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Locating Emergency Callers Improving in the USA
The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) has reported that ninety-five percent of Americans now reside in areas where wireless 911 service includes the delivery of the user's callback number and estimated caller location to the appropriate Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), a capability known as Phase II Wireless Enhanced 911 (e911) service. This number represents a five percent increase from a year ago in the percentage of the population living in counties with 911 centers capable of receiving Phase II Wireless e911 information. more
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Canadian Operators Told to Improve 911 Locations Based Services
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has gaven Canadian wireless service providers a one-year deadline to upgrade their emergency phone ( 911) services. By February 1, 2010, at the latest, emergency responders must be able to determine the location of a person using a cellphone to call 911 with much greater precision. more
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Nokia kick-starts GPS market in Europe
Opinion piece by Tony Cripps and Michele Mackenzie, principal analysts
According to a new Ovum forecast, the market for GPS-enabled mobile devices
will grow rapidly, from an estimated 163.9 million shipments in 2007 to almost
572 million in 2012. In the early years this growth has been driven by the CDMA
players, namely Qualcomm, serving large CDMA markets such as the US, where the
e911 mandate stipulates the use of location-based technologies in handsets, and
markets such as Korea and Japan where demand for location-enabled services is
higher than in other regions.
more
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GPS Smartphones Generating Renewed Momentum for the LBS Infrastructure Industry
The recent launches of GPS-enabled smartphones with touch screen interfaces such as AppleÃ's iPhone, the BlackBerry Storm, the T-Mobile G1, NokiaÃ's 5800 XpressMusic, and Sony EricssonÃ's Xperia X1 are fueling interest in handset-based navigation and location based services (LBS) despite the worsening economic climate. In turn this drives both third party LBS application development and the roll out of LBS infrastructure by carriers to support the much needed Secure User Plane Location (SUPL)-compliant Assisted GPS functionality. more
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Sagem to Embed GPS Receiver into SIM Cards
Smartcard vendor, Sagem Orga has announced a partnership with BlueSky Positioning to integrate A-GPS positioning technology on to conventional SIM cards. Sagem Orga and BlueSky Positioning's new approach incorporates a GPS receiver and a proprietary antenna into the SIM card, enabling mobile operators to deploy applications with no need for software or hardware changes. more
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PND Shipment Growth Decelerates as Alternatives Gain Ground
The Portable Navigation Device's (PND's) days of navigation domination are numbered, as mobile-handset alternatives gain in popularity over the next few years, according to iSuppli. more
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High-Accuracy LBS Key to Offsetting Federally Mandated E911 Costs
The U.S. Federal Government has mandated automatic location identification for cell phones as a means for emergency responders to quickly locate 911 dialers. Fortunately, the billions of dollars required to implement this mandate can be leveraged by U.S. carriers to produce commercial Location-Based Services (LBS). LBS promises a lucrative revenue stream and presents carriers with a way to differentiate services in an increasingly competitive mobile environment. more
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Location-Based Services to Grow Nearly 170 Percent in 2008
Worldwide subscribers to location-based communications services on mobile devices will increase by nearly 168 per cent in 2008 while revenue will grow by 169 per cent, according to a new report from Gartner. more
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