June 10, 2005
Universities' Technology Will Locate 911 Callers on Internet Phones
Three universities have unveiled technology that would tell emergency-services operators the physical locations of people who use Internet telephones to call 911. The advance, which would plug a significant hole that the spread of Internet telephones has opened in emergency-services networks on campuses and elsewhere, was developed with help from technology companies and state agencies.
The technology would send emergency dispatchers not only information about the caller's location,
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