Can dispatchers pinpoint the location of a 911 caller? That's an issue that's come up following the death of Jolene Waldref, who called 911 from a busy Milwaukee intersection in January and died after ...

Under the mandate, a GSM caller’s location must be identified within 50 meters 67% of the time and within 100 meters 95% of the time, according to Brian J. McNiff, who leads the marketing, business ...

Sanuj Bhatia, the managing editor at Pocketnow, is responsible for supervising and contributing to all the content published on the website, including news, reviews, features, and how-tos. He began ...

A broadband provider has been penalised by Ofcom for failing to supply accurate location data for nearly 1,000 emergency calls, a lapse the communications watchdog described as putting people at ...

Emergency response is the backbone of public safety. Yet, many 911 systems in state and local government still rely on outdated assumptions that caller locations are always clear and that calls ...

A survey conducted this month by the Find Me 911 Coalition found that most consumers still believe that if they dial 911 on their cellphones the operator can find their location to send help.