Mobile Voice Commentary

Fair or not, wireline and wireless E911 are different

One of the things we love at MRT is getting feedback from our readers, whose input frequently makes us reconsider technologies, policies and their impact on the communications marketplace

Broken promises

In January, a young Nebraska couple both in their 20s died in a snowstorm after dispatchers couldn’t locate them, even though the couple called 911 five from their wireless phones

Where’s public-safety’s interest in SDR

Recently I spoke with Fred Frantz and Allan Margulies from the Software Defined Radio Forum, who brought me up to date on the results from a request for information that the Forum’s Public-Safety Special Interest Group issued in November

Martin’s VoIP 911 effort should only be the beginning

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin last week told Congress he will ask his colleagues during the next month to require voice-over-IP companies to provide emergency-calling service to customers through traditional 911 systems