CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – Board members for the Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle County Emergency Communications Center (ECC) have approved a new program for employees.
During a virtual meeting Tuesday, August 18, ECC board members discussed a new Pandemic Risk Recognition Program, which would allow people who worked with increased risk of COVID-19 to be compensated for working in those conditions… READ MORE
ORLEANS PARISH COMMUNICATION DISTRICT: Tyrell Morris, executive director of the Orleans Parish Communication District, has been chosen as co-chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Special Committee of the National Emergency Number Association. His co-chair is Frances Garcia, president of Texas NENA. The committee will examine how NENA and 911 can better support underrepresented populations… READ MORE
911 call centers across Maryland are accepting text messages in addition to calls starting Thursday, according to the Maryland Association of Counties.
The association said in a news release that customers from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon will be able to send texts to 911 when a call can’t be placed… READ MORE
City commissioners quickly took care of a short business agenda at Monday night’s meeting.
Commissioners approved the bid of $99,081.06 to purchase a chassis diesel engine bucket truck from Equipment Technology LLC (ETI). Commissioners also approved a consent agenda including facilities use agreements with the Heart of Oklahoma Youth Rodeo Association and also with Tim Gray for an event at Crystal Beach Park… READ MORE
The Texas Commission on State Emergency Communications (CSEC) adopted AT&T ESInet as its NextGen9-1-1 platform to transition 17 Regional Planning Commission (RPC) public safety answering points (PSAPs) to NG9-1-1. The first nine counties, which are part of the Nortex RPC, recently went live with AT&T ESInet serving nearly 80,000 Texans with a more reliable and improved 9-1-1 experience.
AT&T ESInet is built on AT&T’s IP network. The IP-based call routing service uses i3 standards from the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) to modernize legacy 9-1-1 infrastructure… READ MORE
There is a lot happening this month. Unfortunately, since Congress is taking its usual August break, there won’t be any further action to repeal the T-Band nor will there be any activity in Next-Generation 9-1-1 (NG911) funding. Further, there does not appear to be any progress in coordinating, funding, and finally serving many in rural America who still do not have access to broadband. Meanwhile, the FCC has turned down petitions from both the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) that call for a stay of the order issued by the FCC in April 2020 permitting secondary use of the already heavily used 6-GHz spectrum…
