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Having 911 services for VoIP is without a doubt extremely important. In fact, 911 is an essential service for winning over new customers. Vixxi Solution’s E-911 service for their VoIP network will come from Level 3.

According to the companies:

Under the terms of this agreement, Vixxi will leverage Level 3’s extensive geographic presence to route 911 calls to the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) over the nationwide 911 infrastructure, thereby expanding Vixxi’s coverage to provide FCC compliant nomadic E-911 capabilities to service providers. Vixxi’s database capability will identify the customer’s location and then send the call to Level 3 with routing instructions to terminate the call to the geographically relevant PSAP.

“Aligning ourselves with the Level 3 network enables expanded coverage of our Enhanced 911 services to customers across the nation,” said Christopher Camut, Chief Executive Officer of Vixxi Solutions. “With a comprehensive solutions portfolio and proven E-911 expertise, Level 3 will help us to provide a better, more extended reach in support of public safety.”

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By combining multiple location technologies, TruePosition offers significantly improved performance for all location-based services. The Hybrid Location Solution provides better accuracy and consistency for consumer services such as local search and location-based advertising. The solution also enhances enterprise services including workforce management and asset tracking. Most importantly, it offers the accuracy, latency, and yield required for safety and security services such as family monitoring, personal medical alerts, and emergency number services including E-911 (in the US) or E-112 (in the European Union).

The TruePosition Hybrid Location Solution can incorporate a combination of location technologies such as Cell ID (CID), Enhanced Cell ID (ECID), Angle of Arrival (AOA), Uplink Time Difference of Arrival (U-TDOA), and Assisted GPS (A-GPS) to ensure optimum accuracy, latency, and yield across every type of environment and condition—urban, suburban, rural, indoors, in-vehicle, in-motion and stationary.

“TruePosition’s combination of U-TDOA and A-GPS provides the best performance of any individual technology or any hybrid location technology available today or in the foreseeable future,” said Stephen Stuut, CEO of TruePosition. “With this solution, TruePosition can offer the performance and reliability that the public demands for location-based services, especially for emergency calls where people’s lives and property are often at stake.”

The TruePosition Hybrid Location Solution can perform in two different ways:

1. A-GPS and U-TDOA can be combined in a fallback arrangement, in which the location system calls on one method when the performance of the other has deteriorated due to environmental conditions. For example, U-TDOA would be the operative method in urban areas and indoors, where A-GPS produces lesser results or fails altogether. Consequently, A-GPS would be selected in extreme rural areas where it can produce very accurate results.

2. TruePosition can have two location technologies such as A-GPS and U-TDOA operate simultaneously, and then mathematically combine the calculations to obtain enhanced results. The combined location calculations produce location estimates at substantially higher accuracy than A-GPS or U-TDOA alone.

The TruePosition Hybrid Location Solution™ not only improves the performance of A-GPS equipped mobiles in areas with marginal A-GPS coverage, but supplies high-accuracy location in areas with no GPS reception and to mobile phones without GPS capabilities.

More information at TruePosition www.trueposition.com.

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ARS is covering the e911, real 911 services for VoIP, Voice over IP services. Although FCC has been pushing for VoIP solution providers to provide proper 911 services known as e911, too much political and legal wrangling has lead to uninformed general public meeting with trouble while trying to use 911 services, like when they had PSTN services.
Finally we might be getting somewhere now that the bill submitted by Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) has been approved by senate.

"All VoIP customers are one step closer to having "real" 911 services accessible tothem, thanks to the Senate. The body passed the IP-Enabled Voice Communications and Public Safety Act last night, a bill that had been proposed by Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK). The legislation was approved by the Senate Commerce Committee last year, and will now go on to the House of Representatives for further consideration."
ARSTechnica Article.

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Nov 13, 2007: The 911 Modernization and Public Safety Act passed in the House of Representatives by roll call vote. The bill will promote and enhance public safety by facilitating the rapid deployment of IP-enabled 911 and E-911 services, encourage the Nation’s transition to a national IP-enabled emergency network, and improve 911 and E-911 access to those with disabilities. The vote was held under a suspension of the rules to cut debate short and pass the bill, needing a two-thirds majority. The totals were 406 Ayes, 1 Nays, 25 Present/Not Voting. The Bill is an effort to bring Internet telephony companies in compliance with new Federal Communications Commission rules, will now allow VoIP providers, such as Skype, Vonage the direct access to the backbone of the E911 system which is in the hands of large telecom carriers.
The Bill H.R.3403

Source: voipcentral.org

The House Commerce Committee has approved the legislation to alter some aspects of the existing VoIP rules.
A House bill is prepared to bring some amendments in the FCC rules in the field of VoIP E-911 solutions. The House bill states that a VoIP service provider could market and gain new customers in areas where it did not have a 911 solution. Previously FCC ruled that VoIP service provider must ensure 911 solutions to its customers at the time of connectivity.

Although the new resolution makes flexible to the existing law, still it has certain binding guidelines upon the VoIP service providers. It says that the VoIP service providers must create connectivity to a selective router within 30 days of gaining its new customer. At the same time, the VoIP service provider is responsible to provide direct E911 service within 180 days.

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Solution Supports Carriers Plans to Comply with FCC VoIP E9-1-1 Mandate

“The FCC’s proposed rulemaking makes it pretty clear; if you want to offer Internet telephone service, you need to make sure your subscribers have access to the dedicated wireline 9-1-1 network,” said William Stofega, Research Manager with IDC’s Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) Services Program. “For any wireless carrier considering making the move into VoIP, solutions like Intrado’s are worth investigating.”

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After FCC issued the requirements of E-911 services for VOIP service providers, One company seems to be expanding it’s own services. Level 3 which already has e-911 in the making and providing most of the us market under it’s umbrella, promisses to cover 70% of the USA by the end of 2005.