Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2344-1001427536-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 25 Sep 2001 07:20:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10951 invoked by uid 510); 25 Sep 2001 14:19:55 -0000 Received: from n25.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.75) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 25 Sep 2001 14:19:55 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2344-1001427536-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.223] by mv.egroups.com with NNFMP; 25 Sep 2001 14:19:35 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 25 Sep 2001 14:18:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 11658 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2001 14:17:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.223 with QMQP; 25 Sep 2001 14:17:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 25 Sep 2001 14:18:38 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id HAA26270 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 07:18:38 -0700 Message-Id: <200109251418.HAA26270@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 07:18:38 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:AT&T.Wireless.Says.It.Can.Meet.FCC.Location.Mandate] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit AT&T Wireless Says It Can Meet FCC Location Mandate By Bob Brewin, Computer World, 9/24/01 <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/Printer_Friendly_Version/0,1212,NAV47_STO64154-,00.html">http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/Printer_Friendly_Version/0,1212,NAV47_STO64154-,00.html> Service aided in search for attack victims AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week confirmed that it can meet the Federal Communications Commission's Enhanced 911 automatic location identification requirements, reversing the position it took when it sought a waiver in April from the Oct. 1 deadline by which carriers must offer the service. Emergency crews searching for victims at the site of the Word Trade Center terrorist attack in New York have been using jury-rigged location systems to locate cell phones and potentially their owners, providing real-world impetus to the cell phone industry's efforts to meet the FCC's E911 location deadlines, analysts said. Steve Crosby, a spokesman for AT&T Wireless, said that although the company had been working on development of a location system that would provide enhanced accuracy, it couldn't meet the FCC's deadlines. Crosby said that in the end, AT&T Wireless decided it would be better to meet the deadline with a system that was as close as possible to the system it had originally planned than to push to complete the original system and miss the deadline. In its latest filing with the FCC, Redmond, Wash.-based AT&T Wireless said it plans to use network-based location systems provided by either TruePosition Inc. in King of Prussia, Pa., or Forest, Va.-based Grayson Wireless, a division of Allen Telecom Inc. in Beechwood, Ohio. Michael Amarosa, a spokesman for TruePosition who once served as deputy commissioner for communications for the New York City Police Department, said his company worked with Verizon Wireless to deploy a jury-rigged version of its position-locating system in lower Manhattan. That makeshift operation, which included "hanging antennas out of broken windows" of buildings near the World Trade Center rubble, was aimed at finding cell phones of victims buried in the collapse of the twin towers. Amarosa said the ad hoc system, which he described as a rough version of the system TruePosition will install nationwide in the AT&T Wireless network, managed to find 1,600 cell phones in or near the rubble pile, with an accuracy of within 100 meters. Alan Reiter, an analyst at Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing in Chevy Chase, Md., said he found it "not coincidental" that AT&T Wireless reversed course on the FCC's location mandate just after the terrorist attacks. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE VeriSign guide to security solutions for your web site: encrypting transactions, securing intranets, and more! http://us.click.yahoo.com/XrFcOC/m5_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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