E911 stakeholders want legacy systems available until end of 2025

Various groups of public safety answering points (PSAPs) and Enhanced 911 (E911) stakeholders are asking the CRTC to have the decommissioning of legacy E911 networks delayed until the end of 2025 or later. As part of Canada’s transition to next-generation 911 (NG911) networks, the legacy E911 networks are currently scheduled to be phased out by March 2025. The CRTC received three separate Part 1 applications in December, asking for the networks’ decommissioning to be delayed. A group comprising E-Comm Emergency Communications for British Columbia Incorporated (E-Comm) and its NG911 contracted partners British Columbia Emergency Health Services, Royal Canadian Mounted Police...