On January 19, APCO filed comments regarding a Petition filed by the National Association of State 9-1-1 Administrators asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to facilitate the transition to Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1). APCO’s comments begin by explaining the challenges 9-1-1 professionals face in the current environment. To address these problems, APCO asks the FCC to adopt rules that would require service providers to provide interoperable solutions and use the caller’s location to improve call routing. APCO also advocated that the FCC’s regulatory approach should avoid shifting responsibility and costs from service providers to ECCs.
