Verizon wifi Chooses TeleCommunication Techniques to Provide Textual content to 911 Nationwide Entrance Solution
Demonstrating its ongoing investment to improving community protection, Verizon wifi Wireless is acting toward providing many of its clients a new way to connect with 911 sales departments run by community protection authorities. The organization declared today that it has chosen TeleCommunication Techniques Inc., of Annapolis, Md., to sign up in an effort that will allow clients to send 911 SMS (Short Concept Service) text messages to the sales departments, which are known as public-service responding to points, or PSAPs.
While customers should always first try to contact a 911 center by creating a speech contact, this improved SMS assistance, when implemented, will offer an alternative for clients on the Verizon wifi Wireless system who are hard of hearing or hard of hearing and cannot create speech calls or who could be placed in additional risk by speaking.
"Verizon is at the leading edge of 911 public-safety enhancements, and present-day statement is another step for creating SMS-to-911 assistance available to those who cannot create a speech contact to 911," said Marjorie Hsu, Verizon wifi Wireless v. p. of technological innovation. "Our organization is continuous its long-standing investment to address the needs of community protection and our clients by providing another way to get help in an urgent situation by using wifi technological innovation."
The organization is operating on programs to create the new abilities available to select PSAPs by early 2013. Verizon wifi programs to use its current CDMA SMS system for 911 written text announcements. The new assistance will be provided to Verizon wifi Wireless clients who have a text-capable phone and a assistance plan that contains written text messages.
"TeleCommunication Techniques has worked carefully with the FCC over the past two years to create its modern technological innovation for SMS to 911," said Maurice B. Tose, chief executive and CEO of TCS. "As the prominent U.S. provider of SMS and innovator in wifi E911, TCS is well located to allow Verizon wifi in improving its community protection investment."
Verizon is using the services of others in the devices industry, PSAPs, the Government Marketing and sales communications Commission payment and other state and federal organizations in the ultimate implementation of this new assistance targeted at giving customers new ways to connect with specific community protection organizations.