Verizon has been “part of the solution” in...

Verizon has been “part of the solution” in improving wireless E-911 location accuracy, two Verizon executives told aides to FCC commissioners Ajit Pai and Mike O'Rielly, as well as officials from the Public Safety Bureau, during a meeting Thursday. Verizon has made caller location information available within an average of 12-15 seconds, and within 25 seconds for 99 percent of all wireless E911 calls when information is available, the telco said in an ex parte filing. Verizon is also working with E911 vendors to improve chipset sensitivity to GPS signals and to improve related network capabilities. Verizon said it’s also enhancing its A-GPS location accuracy solution for VoLTE “in ways that will improve indoor accuracy,” including coupling location data from satellite systems and the Observed Time Difference of Arrival positioning feature with GPS data (http://bit.ly/NzQMJj).