Mobile Phone Companies Must Upgrade 911

Digital Home (Canada’s leading independent source for CE News and discussion) has a good article on the new demand from the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Television Commision) who are demanding that all Mobile phone companies must upgrade 911 services to ensure that emergency services can actually locate the caller. For phones that don't support GPS, the new system must use triangulation etc. in order to provide as complete a location as possible.

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Mobile phone companies must upgrade 911 services

The CRTC announced this week that it would give Canada's wireless phone company's one-year to implement new technology which would allow emergency responders to determine the location of a person using a cellphone to call 911 with much greater precision.

The new regulatory policy would require Canadian wireless companies to deploy "wireless Phase II E9-1-1 service" by 1 February 2010.

In an emergency situation where the caller is unable to speak or cannot identify his or her location, the ability to provide emergency responders with more accurate information of the cellphone’s location can make the difference between life and death.