Verizon vs. County

Polk County (Fla.) and Verizon are butting heads over control of the telephone company’s E911 database–the county now pays Verizon $730,000 to input and maintaint the MSAG, and expense the county wants to cut to about $230,000 by taking over the duties. But Verizon declines to give the county the database information, which they claim has many errors. A consultant has told the county they could maintain the database to a higher level of accuracy if they do the work themselves. Read the story here.