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What Are the Requirements for Phase I Improvements?
House Bill 1983, Section 36, 76th Legislature, required the Commission to implement
Phase I improvements for at least 75 percent of the state 9-1-1 program population no
later than September 1, 2000. It further required that the improvements be made in
accordance with Federal Communications Commission Docket 94-102. In order to
implement Phase I:
* PSAPs must ensure that their equipment can properly receive the wireless
caller's phone number and
location of the cell site or base Completion of Phase I Defined
station receiving the call. Completion of wireless 9-1-1 service
implementation will be equal to 75% of
* Wireless service providers must the total population within the state
make system changes to relay (Commission) program area. Completion
the required data to the PSAP. will be measured by calculating 100% of
the population of individual counties with
functioning Public Safety Answering Points
Under its rider authority, the (PSAPs) that are capable of receiving
Commission defined completion of wireless 9-1-1 calls over the 9-1-1 network,
Phase I improvements for use in and that are capable of receiving the
determining whether it met the required data associated with those calls that
target. (See text box.) provides cell sector and call back
information for an emergency call. The
aggregate population totals for these
The Commission's definition of counties will be the sum total that is
completion requires PSAPs to be measured for completion.
capable of receiving the caller's phone
number and general location data. In Source: Commission on State Emergency
addition, each county identified as Communications
complete must have at least one wireless service provider that has implemented the
improvements. To identify a county as complete for Phase I, it has to be determined
that both of the following occur for just one wireless service provider:
* The wireless service provider's cell towers correctly route wireless 9-1-1 calls
to the specified PSAP.
* All of the PSAPs that take wireless 9-1-1 calls receive the data properly.
What Caused the Difference Between the Percentage Reported
by the Commission and the Percentage Validated by the
State Auditor s Office?
The Commission reported 73.7 percent completion (see Map 1), and the State
Auditor's Office validated 11.3 percent completion (see Map 2). The difference
between the two percentages is due to the Commission's use of high-level information
from the RPCs and the State Auditor's Office's use of detailed system test documents
from the RPCs and PSAPs.
AN AUDIT REPORT ON THE COMMISSION ON
STATE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS IMPLEMENTATION OF
OCTOBER 2000 PHASE I OF WIRELESS 9-1-1 IMPROVEMENTS PAGE 2
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