Outage Reporting
The amount of time OSPs have to notify PSAPs of outages that potentially affect them once compliance can be required with new FCC rules.
What is 30 minutes?
The person is the late Oregon PUC Commissioner and Congressional staffer is the name sake of the law that requires enterprises to employ solutions to provide dispatchable location in response to 911 calls.
Who was Ray Baum?
How 988 calls are routed now.
What is by area code and prefix?
The date that nationwide CMRS providers must deploy Location-Based Routing.
What was May 13, 2024?
This is what the acronym SCS stands for.
What is Supplemental Coverage from Space?
These providers must comply with the FCC's text-2-911 rules.
What is all providers that offer interconnected text messaging?!
(47 CFR Section 9.10(q)).
This organization started the NG911 demarcation docket by filing a petition with the FCC in 2021.
What is the National Association of State 911 Administrators?
The standard that OSPs must use to collect and maintain PSAP contact database information.
What is "special diligence."
These services are covered by Kari's Law and RAY BAUM's Act.
MLTS, fixed telephony, interconnected VoIP, interconnected TRS, and mobile text.
These are the parameters of Intrado's two-layer solution for 988 geo-routing.
What is destination code based on cell tower location and wire center that serves the cell tower?
The date by which non-nationwide CMRS providers must deploy location-based routing and ALL CMRS must deploy location-based routing for RTT.
What is November 13, 2026?
The FCC set these are the interim options for routing 911 calls over SCS.
What is terrestrial wireless providers must transmit all SCS 911 calls/texts to a PSAP using either an emergency call center or location-based routing?
Covered text providers must send this message when a user attempts to text 911 where service is not yet available.
What is an automatic bounce back message informing user that service is unavailable and advising the user to connect to 911 by another means.
The amount of funding the public safety industry is seeking to complete end-to-end NG911 and where the money will come from.
What is $14.8 billion?
This is the amount in legislation pending in the House of Representatives; a Senate bill has $2 billion. Under both bills, the funds would come from the proceeds of FCC spectrum auctions and be awarded to states, tribes and territories through a grant program administered by NTIA at the Department of Commerce.
This organization filed an appeal of the new PSAP outage notification rules.
What is the Competitive Carriers Association?
The basic requirements of Kari's Law.
What the heck?
1. MLTS manufacturers and vendors must pre-configure these systems to support direct dialing of 911.
2. MLTS installers, managers, and operators must ensure that the systems support 911 direct dialing.
3. Systems must be configured to notify a central location on-site or off-site where someone is likely to see or hear the notification. Notification must include:
- That a 911 call has been made;
- A valid callback number; and
- If technically feasible, the information about the caller's location that the MLTS conveys to the PSAP. (47 CFR § 9.3.)
This federal government agency owns the 988 program and selects the 988 administrator.
What is the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?
(FCC administers the short code.)
After the compliance deadline, the number of days a provider has to certify and submit evidence of compliance with the LBR rules.
What is 60?
The number of providers currently offering supplemental coverage from space.
What is 0?
Current satellite-supported 911 uses satellite spectrum. SCS is based on a partnership between a wireless carrier and a satellite company for calls that originate on the terrestrial network over terrestrial spectrum that are delivered by satellite because of terrestrial coverage issues.
This is the year that the FCC adopted text-2-911 rules for covered text providers.
What is 2014?
The point of interconnection for OSPs under the FCC's framework.
The month and year that the FCC started receiving outage reports.
What is January 2005?
Intrado is working with this organization, founded by Dr. Ilan and Lori Alhadeff, that is a primary force behind the legislative effort to pass state and federal Alyssa's Law legislation.
What is MOSS - Make Our Schools Safe?
The 988 network administrator and its telecom subcontractor.
What are V!brant Emotional Health and CX360/Mosaicx?
(Honestly, we had another answer in mind, but it's NSFW.)
After the compliance deadline, the number of days a provider has to submit one-time, live call data on routing methodologies for calls in live call areas and certify the privacy of location information used for location-based routing.
And what is 60?
This is the name of AT&T's and Verizon's satellite partner for SCS.
What is AST SpaceMobile.
Under the FCC’s rules, covered text providers must begin routing 911 text messages to a requesting PSAPs within this many months of receiving a valid request for service.
What is six?
These are the requirements for readiness for a valid state request to deploy (a) SIP and (b) i3.
For SIP, certify infrastructure in place and ability to transmit to PSAPs.
For i3, certify infrastructure in place and connected to ESInet.
Wireless, wireline, cable, VoIP, undersea cable.
What are the services/service providers covered by the Commission's outage reporting rules.
The elements of "dispatchable location" under RAY BAUM's Act that must be delivered to a PSAP from locations with an MLTS.
What are:
1. Validated street address of the calling party.
2. Additional information such as suite, apartment, or similar information necessary to adequately identify the location of the calling party.
(47 CFR § 9.3.)
These organizations completed a Proof of Concept to develop a 988 geo-routing solution and was the first to market a solution.
What are FCC, SAMHSA, V!brant, Mozaicx, AT&T and Intrado?
The distance and confidence parameters for when location-based routing is required.
What is caller location information available at time of routing is ascertainable within a radius of 165 meters at a confidence level of at least 90%?
The confidence and uncertainty requirements for SCS 911.
None! (At least right now.)
These are the location requirements for text-2-911.
What is . . . none?
Under Section 251 of the Communications Act, this is the current point of interconnection for RLECs.
What is the edge of the RLEC's service area.
This is the last hoop the FCC must jump through to make most new rules effective, including the PSAP outage notification rule.
What is approval from the Office of Management and Budget?
The implementation dates for Kari's Law and RAY BAUM's Act.
Ha! This is way too complicated. Go look at the explanation on the FCC's website at https://www.fcc.gov/mlts-911-requirements
These three organizations are the "988 special facilities" for purposes of the FCC's 988 outage reporting rule.
What are SAMHSA, Veterans' Administration, and V!brant?
The amount of time a provider has to notify the FCC that it has entered into an alternate deployment timeline with a PSAP.
What is 30 days?
This is the primary distinction between satellite-supported 911 (for example, Iridium) and 911 over SCS (for example, SpaceX/T-Mo).
What is -
Satellite-supported 911 is an entirely satellite-based service using satellite spectrum. The call initiates and terminates with the satellite operator on spectrum allocate for satellite.
SCS calls originate on a terrestrial wireless network using the terrestrial carrier's spectrum license and is still using that spectrum when the call is picked up by and completed over satellite.
These are the LBR routing requirements for tex-2-911.
- None for SMS
- 24 months for RTT.
The FCC previously set demarcation at the Selective Router for legacy Enhanced 911 in this "royal" decision.
What is King County?