Facts gathered, CRTC forges ahead with review of next-generation 9-1-1 services

OTTAWA – The CRTC has wrapped up a fact-finding exercise with Canada’s wireless service providers as part of its review of next-generation 9-1-1 services.In a letter to the country’s WSP’s dated October 23, 2015, the Commission acknowledged that the companies have “proactively deployed hybrid location determination technologies that combine handset capabilities with network capabilities to offer the most accurate caller-location information possible to PSAPs”. This includes assisted-GPS and network-based technologies such as tower location, Round-trip time, and Advanced Forward Link Trilateration.The CRTC said in the letter that it expects WSPs to continue to invest in the best-available wireless location determination...