Comments Due Dec. 21 on Location ID With 988 Calls

Comments are due Dec. 21, replies Jan. 11 on feasibility and cost of including an automatic dispatchable location that would be conveyed with calls to the 988 suicide prevention hotline, said an FCC Wireline Bureau public notice Thursday. The National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020 requires a report to Congress on location identification, the bureau said. The PN said the July 2022 implementation date for 988 is unchanged, but the Oct. 16, 2020, effective date of 988's designation as the three-digit hotline number was superseded by the effective date set by the Suicide Hotline Act -- Oct. 17, 2021.