Under 47 CFR 9.3, dispatchable location means a location delivered to the PSAP with a 911 call consisting of the validated street address of the calling party plus additional information such as suite or apartment needed to adequately identify the caller's location (CMRS providers excepted).
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 'Dispatchable location'
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, October 1). Troubleshooting 911 calls that route with the wrong location: source note e911-routing-failures-cfr-dispatchable-location-def. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/e911-routing-failures-cfr-dispatchable-location-def
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-e911-routing-failures-cfr-dispatchable-location-def,
title = {Troubleshooting 911 calls that route with the wrong location: source note e911-routing-failures-cfr-dispatchable-location-def},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/e911-routing-failures-cfr-dispatchable-location-def},
note = {Source note e911-routing-failures-cfr-dispatchable-location-def, checked 2026-10-01}
}