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To: foundation who wrote (23907)6/19/2002 7:19:50 AM
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E-911 Deadlines Set For ATT Wireless' TDMA

Jun 19, 2002

AT&T Wireless [AWE] would face fines of up to $1.2 million if it fails to meet
deadlines for providing location information with 911 calls in its TDMA footprint,
according to a consent decree released Thursday by the Federal
Communications Commission. The Redmond, Wash.-based carrier also faces a
$2.2 million fine for not providing location coverage on its GSM network under a
"notice of apparent liability" released in May by the FCC's Enforcement Bureau.

The penalties in the consent decree negotiated with AT&T Wireless are similar to
those in the consent decree Cingular Wireless agreed to in May for also failing
todeploy Phase 2 E-911 coverage, which includes callers' location information, on
its TDMA footprint. A&T Wireless said it failed to deploy location coverage on its
TDMA system after changing its plan from using "Mobile-Assisted Location
System" technology to "Time Difference of Arrival" technology because "the public
safety community repeatedly expressed preference for it in statements and
comments filed with the FCC."

AT&T Wireless agreed to pay $100,000 to the U.S. general fund according to the
decree, which requires the carrier to deploy Phase 2 compliant technology in at
least 1,000 cell sites by Nov. 15 this year. In areas where it uses TDMA, before
April 2003 it also must meet all requests for Phase 2 service from public safety
answering points made before March this year. The FCC will impose a $300,000
fine for the first missed deadline, $600,000 for the second and $1.2 million for each
subsequent failure to comply with the decree.

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The fines are too small to have any impact.
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