Under 47 CFR 9.3, alternative location information is location information, which may be coordinate-based, sufficient to identify the caller's civic address and approximate in-building location including floor level in large buildings.
Checked 2026-10-01
- Vendor
- not restricted
- Product
- not restricted
- Subsystem
- FCC 911 rules
- Deployment
- regulatory
- Region
- us
- Release range
- CFR edition revised as of 2024-10-01
- Checked
- 2026-10-01
Sources
- 47 CFR 9.3 Definitions (Code of Federal Regulations, 2024 annual edition) — U.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo) · tier 1 standards and regulators · 47 CFR 9.3, definition 'Alternative location information'
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, October 1). Troubleshooting 911 calls that route with the wrong location: source note e911-routing-failures-cfr-alt-location-info-def. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/e911-routing-failures-cfr-alt-location-info-def
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-e911-routing-failures-cfr-alt-location-info-def,
title = {Troubleshooting 911 calls that route with the wrong location: source note e911-routing-failures-cfr-alt-location-info-def},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/e911-routing-failures-cfr-alt-location-info-def},
note = {Source note e911-routing-failures-cfr-alt-location-info-def, checked 2026-10-01}
}