APCO recently filed comments in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). NTIA and NHTSA, which jointly constitute the “National 911 Office” responsible for a $115M federal grant program, sought comment on how to implement the grant program. Given the welcome but limited amount of funding available through this program, APCO recommended that the National 911 Office use these grants to create model deployments that demonstrate proofs of concept for fully-deployed and interoperable NG9-1-1 services in urban, suburban, and rural areas. In this way, the grant...
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