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To: foundation who wrote (23907)	6/19/2002 7:19:50 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197064

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. search.pbimedia.com ========== The fines are too small to have any impact.