CTIA: Industry Unable to Meet Z-Axis Timelines Because of COVID-19

CTIA sought reconsideration of rules and timelines approved by FCC commissioners in July for finding the vertical location of wireless callers to 911 (see 2007160055). The order affirms the 2021 and 2023 z-axis requirements and rejects a proposal to weaken them. The order recognized “the COVID-19 pandemic could impact the testing and deployment of 9-1-1 location accuracy solutions, but no one anticipated today’s challenges,” said Monday's petition in docket 07-114. “These changed circumstances have derailed the prospects for achieving the [order’s] timelines,” the group said: “Recently adopted and evolving government restrictions and building access limitations have delayed testing necessary.”