"Pager" Access to 9-1-1: Weighing Short-term and Long-term Solutions

Judy Harkins

Index of Slides

  1. “Pager” Access to 9-1-1: Weighing Short-term and Long-term Solutions
  2. Short-term versus Long-term
  3. Issues
  4. Hearing: Cellphones & 9-1-1
  5. Deaf: Mobile 9-1-1 Now
  6. The Phone Side
  7. 1. Build TTY into the device so you can type to 9-1-1 (fairly short term if feasible)
  8. 1. continued
  9. 2. SMS to 9-1-1? (uses the “phone side”) – long term, maybe never
  10. The Internet/data side
  11. 9-1-1 Community Working Toward Automatic Location Identification for Internet
  12. Wireless Internet to 9-1-1 (IM and/or real-time text)
  13. 4. Wireless Internet to relay
  14. 4. continued
  15. Is wireless 9-1-1 access complicated? Yes

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