by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2020 | Comm Center News
| NENA is happy to announce the availability of this year’s Gold Line Telecommunicator Continuing Education Scholarships!
This scholarship opportunity is open to any telecommunicator, call taker, or dispatcher with at least one year of experience and in good standing with his or her current employer. Supervisory and other managerial personnel are not eligible for this award. Each Telecommunicator Continuing Education Scholarship recipient receives… |
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 18, 2020 | Comm Center News
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Tuesday, Fitch & Associates LLC presented a five-year study to Peoria City Council. Consultants compiled five years of data from 911 calls along with Fire and Advanced Medical Transport system information.
From their findings, they created recommendations to make the city’s emergency responses more efficient…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 18, 2020 | Comm Center News
February 14, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was publicly notified by the National Emergency Address Database (NEAD) administrator, NEAD LLC, that the NEAD had been fully decommissioned and would not be made available to the public safety community.
NEAD was originally envisioned in the Roadmap for Improving E911 Location Accuracy…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 18, 2020 | Comm Center News
Alexandria, VA – On February 14, the wireless industry notified the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it has abandoned the National Emergency Address Database (NEAD). The NEAD was established to help 9-1-1 professionals and other emergency responders locate wireless 9-1-1 callers indoors by supporting the delivery of dispatchable location information (meaning the street address plus apartment, office number or other information needed to find a caller). Given that the industry has not announced testing of other methods for delivering dispatchable locations for 9-1-1 calls, this announcement represents a setback for 9-1-1 location accuracy…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 18, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Polk County Commission decided as 2019 was coming to a close to spend a big chunk of money in an effort to ensure that 911 radio communications would work smoothly in the future.
The unanimous vote at the end of 2019 to approve a contract with Motorola for new towers and a whole new P-25 mission critical public safety communications system along with handheld radios, links to Cobb County’s core and new towers to improve coverage across the county brings with it…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 17, 2020 | Comm Center News
Podcast interview about what it’s really like to be a 9-1-1 Dispatcher
