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9-1-1 Board News

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Ebola-related Resources for Policy and Decision Makers

The Office of the Alabama 9-1-1 Board has been asked to make Ebola-related resources available to the Emergency Communications Districts. The following are links that are being shared on behalf of the Alabama Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These links are for information sharing purposes only, so that the decision-makers for local centers can make the appropriate choices within their agency. NENA as well as APCO are posting resources on their sites along with Alabama NENA.

Posted: 10/17/14 - 1:45pm - Read this full Article
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9-1-1 Rate Change effective August 1, 2014

May 1, 2014

To: All Telephone Service Providers - Regulatory and/or Tax Departments

Subject: 9-1-1 Service Fee Rate Change

Pursuant to Section 11-98-5 Ala. Code, 1975, as amended, the Alabama Statewide 911 Board recently voted at its last regular called board meeting to increase the monthly statewide 9-1-1 service charge from $1.60 per month to $1.75 per month effective August 1, 2014.

Posted: 5/9/14 - 8:25am - Read this full Article
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Compliance Audit Checklist - Public Examiners

Attached is a checklist of what the Department of Public Examiners will need from ECDs for compliance audits. The file is in Excel format.

Posted: 10/17/13 - 2:40pm - Read this full Article
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Answers to Questions - Chyrsler's Uconnect Service

Courtesy of APCO Internation

Uconnect is a human-initiated 9-1-1 call, and uses a cellular number assigned to the vehicle. It will provide the normal wireless ALI data, including Phase II location (if implemented for the PSAP), if the telecommunicator or the PSAP equipment rebids for the caller location. The ALI data will not have any special content that identifies the call as a Uconnect call.

The Uconnect supported, human-initiated 9-1-1 call acts as a normal wireless E9-1-1 call, but with certain additional vehicle based characteristics and options.

Answers to the most frequently asked public safety questions are included below to clarify and provide additional information to the public safety community.

Posted: 10/11/13 - 11:04am - Read this full Article
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Chrysler Announces Uconnect Access - Info for 9-1-1 Centers

UPDATE - Oct 11 - Answers to questions asked of Chrysler by the public safety community.

Chrysler Group LLC recently announced that, as part of its new suite of connected services called Uconnect® Access, select vehicles now come equipped with a built-in data connection as well as a 9-1-1 button on the rear-view mirror. Occupants in vehicles with Uconnect Access can push the 9-1-1 button to connect to the appropriate PSAP who can dispatch responders to an accident scene, if necessary.

Posted: 10/2/13 - 1:13pm - Read this full Article
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