The Jeff Pulver Blog: My Languishing Wireless E-911 Phase III Petition:

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November 17, 2005

My Languishing Wireless E-911 Phase III Petition:

For those of you following my blog, you might have noticed that I have spent a lot of time criticizing the FCC for its backward-looking and anti-innovative approach to emergency response, and for singling out the VoIP industry for more onerous compliance obligations. I think I have to reiterate that my criticism of the FCC’s approach is NOT motivated by any aversion to emergency response. I want IP technology to revolutionize America and the World’s best emergency response capability as soon as possible. But I am baffled about the disparate treatment towards the nascent IP-based communications industry vis-à-vis other more established, richer and more connected industry players.

I am also forced to wonder why the FCC has never acted on a petition I filed on September 20, 2001 to the FCC to consider an E-911 Phase III initiative to improve in-building mobile coverage. I was motivated by the horror of 9/11. I worked at Cantor Fitzgerald Securities at One World Trade Center until 1996. Cantor lost seven hundred employees that day, including many very close friends and former colleagues. And I resolved to promote better emergency response capabilities in buildings. I am convinced that many of my former colleagues and friends did not know what to do when the planes struck the World Trade Center. Back in 1993, after the World Trade Center truck bombing, we were told to head to the 108th floor and go to the roof. I am sure many folks did just that and that may have contributed to their inability to evacuate the building. Sadly, the need for improved indoors tracking was clearly demonstrated during the tragic events of September 11, 2001 at the New York World Trade Center.

So, four year ago, I petitioned the FCC to consider issuing an E-911 Phase III directive aimed at reducing the response time for wireless emergency 911 calls in large buildings and similarly structured interiors. Improving emergency response time in these environments would entail new accuracy requirements for locating mobile phones in indoors settings.

Now we live in a world where only the VoIP providers are Federally-obligated to provide fully-compliant E-911 obligations to business users. Mobile providers do not have to provide full location based emergency response tracking the user to a precise floor or location. Neither are multi-line business phones that use traditional TDM or circuit-based technology. For some reason, once a traditional PBX is replaced with an IP-PBX, that phone is now subject to increased obligations.

Why is the new technology and the new provider subject to deadlines and obligations that, to date, have not been imposed upon the much more prevalent and established services and technologies that have had many more years to implement a solution? Why does the IP-PBX phone at the Commerce Department have to be E-911 compliant but the non-IP multi-line phones at the FCC do not? And what about the fate of my E-911 Phase III Petition?

Tags: voip, fcc, e911, policy

Posted by jeff on November 17, 2005 08:05 AM | Permalink

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