Enhanced wireless 911 services to come within the year

GATINEAU – As anticipated, the CRTC has given Canadian wireless providers one year to upgrade their 911 services. By February 1, 2010, emergency responders must be able to determine the location of a person using a cell phone to call 911 “with much greater precision”, Monday’s CRTC announcement read. "With more than 20 million wireless subscribers in Canada, it is imperative that emergency responders can quickly and accurately locate those who use their cell phones to call 911," said CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein, in the statement. "I am pleased that the industry has come forward with a technical solution,...