Consumer response
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NAD: After two years' notice, industry "should not be permitted to come in at the eleventh hour and secure an unspecified amount of additional time" to achieve compliance; far too early to predict failure, given how little was done to resolve the technical issues
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CAN: concerns about proposed reliance on short messaging services: difficult to type out words on a telephone keypad while in the throes of a stressful emergency
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Texas Advisory Commission on State Emergency Communications harsh opposition: proposed alternatives would deny people with disabilities equal access to telecommunications services
Summer 1997: Industry creates new Wireless E911 Coalition:
seeks extension of TTY deadline for 18 months -- until April 1, 1999