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Report: Wireless E911 not good enough By Jeffrey Silva Story posted: April 11, 2007 - 1:49 pm EDT A new report finds location-based wireless emergency service is not always reliable, one of several major problems with the nation’s 911 regime that lawmakers and public safety officials said needs to be overhauled to accommodate new communications technologies and increased numbers of emergency calls.“There is a clear expectation that the PSAP (public safety answering point), as well as traditional first responders, will have consistent and accurate locating data delivered with all wireless 911 calls to the PSAP. The wireless location accuracy performance of the carriers in the designated ‘PSAP Test Area’ did not meet these expectations,” stated the Project Locate report, whose findings were released by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing.