APCO Study on Phase II Accuracy

APCO has completed a study of Phase II wireless E911 accuracy, finding that on a local basis, cellular carriers aren’t meeting the FCC’s accuracy requirements up to 80% of the time. APCO has released the report to the participating agencies and certain media outlets before its general release in May. The FCC allows carriers to compute their Phase II accuracy over a wide area, in some cases an entire state, to meet the commission’s accuracy requirements. However, when tallied for a smaller geographic area, APCO’s test results show that carriers aren’t even close to meeting the accuracy requirement. Read more here and here. Update: The study was posted on-line in mid-May, and you can download (pdf) it here.