This weekend Verizon announced its plans to brand a nationwide system allowing jail cellphone telephone users to text message 911. The organisation volition live on inwards house every bit early on every bit 2013. This service volition live on helpful for the deaf or hard of hearing who discovery vox calls hard if non impossible. Verizon says the next nigh text to 911's create goodness for the deaf or hard of hearing,
"While consumers should ever outset endeavour to contact a 911 oculus past times making a vox call, this enhanced SMS service, when deployed, volition offering an option for customers on the Verizon Wireless network who are deaf or hard of hearing together with cannot brand vox calls or who could live on placed inwards additional danger past times speaking."To live on clear if y'all are able to brand vox calls to 911 it remains the preferred method. Text to 911 service has non been deployed then texts to 911 volition non live on answered. Click read to a greater extent than below to read the Verizon's press release.
Verizon Selects TeleCommunication Systems to Provide Text to 911 National Gateway Solution
New Service Will Enable Customers to Send 911 Short-Code Messages to Emergency Response Centers
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Demonstrating its continued commitment to advancing populace safety, Verizon Wireless is taking steps toward offering many of its customers a novel means to communicate amongst 911 telephone phone centers run past times populace security officials. The companionship announced today that it has selected TeleCommunication Systems Inc., of Annapolis, Md., to participate inwards an first that volition enable customers to post 911 SMS (Short Message Service) texts to the telephone phone centers, which are known every bit public-service answering points, or PSAPs.
While consumers should ever outset endeavour to contact a 911 oculus past times making a vox call, this enhanced SMS service, when deployed, volition offering an option for customers on the Verizon Wireless network who are deaf or hard of hearing together with cannot brand vox calls or who could live on placed inwards additional danger past times speaking.
"Verizon is at the forefront of 911 public-safety innovations, together with today's statement is simply about other pace inwards making SMS-to-911 service available to those who cannot brand a vox telephone phone to 911," said Marjorie Hsu, Verizon Wireless vice president of technology. "Our companionship is continuing its long-standing commitment to address the needs of populace security together with our customers past times offering simply about other means to become assist inwards an emergency past times using wireless technology."
The companionship is working on plans to brand the novel capabilities available to choose PSAPs past times early on 2013. Verizon plans to role its existing CDMA SMS network for 911 text notifications. The novel service volition live on offered to Verizon Wireless customers who bring a text-capable telephone together with a service computer program that includes text messaging.
"TeleCommunication Systems has worked closely amongst the FCC over the past times 2 years to prepare its innovative engineering scientific discipline for SMS to 911," said Maurice B. Tose, president together with CEO of TCS. "As the preeminent USA supplier of SMS together with pioneer inwards wireless E911, TCS is good positioned to enable Verizon inwards advancing its populace security commitment."
Verizon is working amongst others inwards the communications industry, PSAPs, the Federal Communications Commission together with other federal together with nation agencies inwards the eventual deployment of this novel service aimed at giving consumers novel ways to communicate amongst designated populace security agencies.
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