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NextNav announced that it has signed an agreement with a ‘top wireless carrier’ to deliver vertical-location—or Z-axis—information about an 911 caller to a public-safety answering point (PSAP) when an emergency call is made. Dan Hight, NextNav’s vice president of business development and partnerships, said that the NextNav 911 Z-axis solution—using the same vertical-location technology leveraged […]

Motorola Solutions last week bought 911 Datamaster, a private company that provides 911 call-routing solutions that work with both legacy systems and IP-based next-generation 911 (NG911) platforms that leverage GIS-based technology to connect emergency callers to the proper 911 center, according to a company official. Dan Twohig, Motorola Solutions’ vice president of NG911 call routing, […]

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Public-safety leaders today expressed disappointment that efforts to secure federal funding for next-generation 911 (NG911) deployments likely will need to begin anew after hopes to pass the $2 trillion Build Back Better bill were dashed with an announcement of opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.). Senate Democrats have been trying for months to persuade moderate […]