FCC wireless location accuracy rules shouldn’t cover underground...

FCC wireless location accuracy rules shouldn’t cover underground mass transit systems “until a test bed proves that suitable indoor location systems, specifically proven in the underground mass transportation environment, are commercially available, cost effective, and technology and air interface neutral,” said Transit Wireless’s comment posted Monday in docket 07-114 (http://bit.ly/1rb4Nyb). Transit said it’s building out a distributed antenna system covering “the nation’s largest mass transportation infrastructure,” the New York City subway system. The company cited the “lack of record regarding current indoor location technologies for their effectiveness and accuracy in the underground mass transportation environment.” Also filing in the docket, the National Association of State EMS Officials, National Association of EMS Physicians, National Association of EMTs and National EMS Management Association urged the FCC to impose indoor location accuracy standards on carriers. “Accurate location information can assist in finding indoor callers quickly, and improved response times translate directly to improved medical outcomes in life-threatening cases,” the groups said (http://bit.ly/1jIcA4c).