Viiz CEO Meets With Commissioners on 911 Technology

Viiz Communications’ CEO Norman Phipps and others from the company met with FCC Commissioners Brendan Carr, Geoffrey Starks and Nathan Simington about the company’s “efforts to develop and make available customized technology solutions and support services for use in connection with emergency communications,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 15-80. “Viiz has compiled the most comprehensive database of U.S.-based primary and secondary [public safety answering points] -- verifying information on more than 97 percent of all such” public safety answering points nationwide, Viiz said: The database can be used by originating service providers “and covered 911 service providers to efficiently and affordably comply with the Commission’s 911 outage notification requirements.”