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Articles tagged with: E911 and Emergency
US Regulator Tightens Rules for Locating a Mobile Phone in an Emergency
The USA's Federal Communications Commission has announced that it will tighten the requirements for locating a mobile phone when making an emergency phone call, but not until 2019. more
Related Tags: fcc, location-based-service, 911, gps, USA
HTC and Sony Ericsson Sued Over Location Based Services Patents
Canada based patent holding company, Mosaid Technologies has announced that it is suing HTC America and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA) for allegedly infringing three U.S. patents relating to the emergency 911 (E-911) standard, as mandated by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). more
Related Tags: mosaid-technologies, htc, sony-ericsson, 911, gps, mosaid, mosaid, USA
Australian Mobile Networks to Offer Location Information to Emergency Services
Australian mobile networks will be required to provide mobile location information to the emergency services from the end of April, under new plans announced by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). The new rules only mandate situations where a "Triple Zero" caller is unable to verbally report their location, although it can be presumed that the service will be offered as routine due to the time saving it can offer the emergency services. more
Related Tags: acma, emergency-services, Australia
USA Mulls Allowing Text Messages to 911 Emergency Services
Americans needing to contact the emergency services could soon be able to send text messages or even photos and videos taken with cameraphones to the emergency centres if proposals by the telecoms regulator, the FCC are approved. more
Related Tags: fcc, text-message, 911, students, emergency-services,
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
Related Tags: e-911, location-based-services, lbs, 911, 112, play, crtc, cell-phone, Canada
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
Related Tags: rural, 911, life, tower,
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
Related Tags: itu, 911, life, tower, crtc, Canada
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
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, nokia, iphone, apple, apple, qualcomm, edge, gps, wind, cdma, ovum, blackberry, oss, symbian, oem, operating-system, windows, chipset, music, emergency-services, true, series-40
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
Related Tags: sim-card, sagem-orga, gps, eu, a-gps, bluesky-positioning, antenna, emergency-services, bluesky
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
Related Tags: social-networking, gps, lbs, cell-id, a-gps, 911, navigation, churn,
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