Comments on: Editorial: What Are Benefits of NG911? http://www.911dispatch.com/2010/10/12/editorial-what-are-benefits-of-ng911/ news and information about public safety communications since 1982 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:19:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Richard Atkins http://www.911dispatch.com/2010/10/12/editorial-what-are-benefits-of-ng911/comment-page-1/#comment-2334 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:04:37 +0000 http://www.911dispatch.com/?p=3984#comment-2334 It is ironic that your editorial starts with the premise that touting text messages and video as motivations for investing in technology needed for NG9-1-1 services is a weak justification, but then wraps up with the idea that NG9-1-1 will “finally bring E911 service to the 175 counties in America that don’t have E911 at all.”

Those counties will most likely be the last to implement NG9-1-1, if ever, due to the same factors that have left them without E9-1-1 all these years – the inability to fund the cost and/or lack of adequate telecom infrastructure.

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