In FCC 19-76 the Commission concluded it would be premature to adopt dispatchable location requirements for text-to-911 comparable to those for other covered services, and instead required covered text providers within 2 years of the effective date to provide dispatchable location if technically feasible or otherwise end user manual provision of dispatchable location or enhanced location information which may be coordinate-based.

Checked 2026-09-16

Vendor
Federal Communications Commission
Product
multi-line telephone systems
Subsystem
regulation
Deployment
not restricted
Region
united states
Release range
not restricted
Checked
2026-09-16

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 16). Dispatchable location and nomadic user handling: source note displ-text-to-911-got-a-flexible-standard. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/displ-text-to-911-got-a-flexible-standard

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-displ-text-to-911-got-a-flexible-standard,
  title  = {Dispatchable location and nomadic user handling: source note displ-text-to-911-got-a-flexible-standard},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/displ-text-to-911-got-a-flexible-standard},
  note   = {Source note displ-text-to-911-got-a-flexible-standard, checked 2026-09-16}
}

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