Buried in an article today on emergency services was this shocker…
"Verizon said about one-third of 911 call centers have upgraded their systems and can receive the location information from callers using mobile phones, PDAs, smartphones and other wireless devices."
The article is from an Australian website, but the figures appear to be for the U.S. This just totally blew me away. I had no idea the figure was so low. The FCC has required GPS capabilities in 95% of cell phones in the U.S. Sounds like they need to work on the other end too!
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