A high-ranking FCC official will visit California tomorrow to present the federal government’s five-step action planto implement Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG911) services, including the future use of text, data and video during an emergency. The presentation will take place at the quarterly State 9-1-1 Advisory Board meeting in Sacramento.
David Furth, deputy chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, said he will outline the plan announced last month by Chairman Julius Genachowski, as well as discuss the commission’s recent actions to seek comment on whether and how to prioritize calls to 9-1-1 over other calls during emergencies. The later issue is in response the East Coast earthquake on August 23, 2011.
Tomorrow’s advisory board meeting will be held at 9 a.m. at California Highway Patrol headquarters in Sacramento.
