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NENA 911 for Multi-Line Systems

February 24, 2009

In a follow-up to this article, National Emergency Number Association (NENA) announces model legislation for Multi-Line Telephone Systems (in MTUs, like hotels, offices, etc., where the internal PBX has to add 911 info to the call about what room or suite number).

"On Thursday, February 19, 2009, the Executive Board of the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) approved an updated version of model legislation designed to help states develop statutes and rules requiring sufficiently precise caller location information for 9-1-1 calls made using Multi-Line Telephone Systems (MLTS). The model legislation would ensure that 9-1-1 callers can be located when dialing from a business, shared tenant facility, hotel, or similar enterprise environment. Reflected in the language of the model legislation are technological advancements made in recent years that enable the implementation of Enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) MLTS capabilities without imposing undue burdens on MLTS manufacturers, providers, and operators.

Currently, there is no federal E9-1-1 requirement for MLTS, and only sixteen states have taken on the issue, each with substantively varied prescriptions to the problem.

Posted in telecommunications, wireline

FCC Doing Heavy Lifting

October 23, 2008

The FCC is holding a meeting on Nov. 4. On the agenda: Inter-Carrier Compensation, Alltel-VZ merger, Clearwire-Sprint merger, and a vote of White Spaces. Lots of heavy lifting on this agenda. Martin wants to give his pals at VZ one more gift before he goes.

Posted in FCC, duopoly, mergers, telco, telecommunications, voip, wi-fi, wireline

Best Kept Sprint Secret

September 23, 2008

Here's something to do: surf over to Sprint.com and try to find any wireline services. After 5 minutes of searching Business Services, navigation takes you to Nextel.com for Sprint's MPLS offering. On that page, you can find info about MPLS, VPN, IP Convergence, and Internet Access. Yesterday, Sprint gave a presentation to re-affirm to agents that Sprint was still in the wireline game.

Posted in telco, telecommunications, wireline

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