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Verizon Reports Progress on Providing Emergency Texts to PSAPs

Verizon has already given almost 500 public safety answering points the capacity to receive emergency texts- to-911, company officials said in a meeting with staff from the FCC Public Safety Bureau, including Chief David Simpson. Deployment to 160 additional PSAPs…

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is in progress, Verizon said in a Tuesday filing posted in docket 11-60 on Wednesday. “Verizon also discussed the challenges to extending text-to-911 service to its multimedia messaging service (MMS) platform without multimedia attachments or delivery to multiple recipients,” the filing said. “Verizon described ongoing industry efforts to address these issues through standards bodies and multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) vendors.”