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To: slacker711 who wrote (30154)	12/17/2002 2:51:38 PM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197227

More E-911 delays around the corner by Lynnette Luna TelephonyOnline.com, Dec 16 2002 The Federal Communications Commission rejected urgent requests from Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile USA to extend the amount of time the carriers have to comply with E-911 rules and referred their case to the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau. Cingular and T-Mobile said they needed more time to deploy enhanced observed time difference of arrival (E-OTD) technology in their networks. Cingular announced it would abandon E-OTD and deploy a network-based solution although it would continue to sell handsets incorporated with E-OTD and continue testing the technology. Cingular hinted as much throughout 2002. T-Mobile, which continues to support E-OTD, said it would deploy an interim system until E-OTD is ready. Cingular and T-Mobile will likely enter into consent degrees with the FCC. The commission and AT&T Wireless entered into a consent degree in October, which called for AT&T Wireless to pay a $2 million fine to the U.S. Treasury. At that time, AT&T Wireless also abandoned E-OTD in favor of a network-based solution known as time difference of arrival (TDOA), an unproven technology for GSM. Cingular Wireless said it has successfully completed field testing of TruePosition’s network-based wireless solution across Wilmington, Del. AT&T Wireless recently told the FCC that its E-911 vendor, Grayson Wireless, has begun installing a TDOA in the market AT&T Wireless chose for its first office application (FOA). AT&T Wireless, however, recently warned the FCC in its interim report that “significant work remains before the Grayson technology can be declared ready for FOA testing, and FOA testing in itself may reveal issues affecting the overall suitability of this particular E-911 solution.” “A question mark remains over ability,” said a spokesman for Cambridge Positioning System, the company that invented E-OTD technology. “It remains unproven in GSM in terms of real live network deployments in a range of environments, it’s a proprietary system and doesn’t have backing from big vendors.” The GSM community has been struggling of late with EOTD, which uses certain algorithms in a handset to determine a caller's location based on different base stations in an area. Many in the industry have consistently questioned the viability of EOTD, and now more questions are swirling as to whether EOTD can meet the more stringent accuracy requirements the FCC will impose in late 2003. “We are reassured that Cingular continues to keep E- OTD alive,” said the CPS spokesman. “Our key aim is to make T-Mobile’s deployment the showcase for the industry.” telephonyonline.com ========== LOL!