AT&T has been able to share their customer’s current geolocated location for years. In the past they only did that when they could sell that information, without consent.
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AT&T Now Using Device GPS Location for 911 Call Routing
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It also doesn't include so-called Z coordinates. So first responders would know that you're in a high rise but not which floor.
At any rate, I remember going to industry conferences about E-911 in the late '90s. Using GPS for this is not new.
For this to work do I need to remove my tinfoil hat and turn my phone's location services back on?
Didn’t the Apple Watch already have this feature? Where it calls automatically from fall detection? Or did it use Wi-Fi calling (manual address entry) or cellular towers?
Last year we found ourselves in three extremely random emergency situations and called 911 each time. All three times we were passed around and required to repeat the emergency to 2-3 different people before they actually sent help. This was not situational based. It was strictly location dependent.
How does it work when you are inside a building, or under thick canopy ? Does it fall back to tower + RSSI ?
Meanwhile I still can’t get decent AT&T cellular service at my house. Gotta love it.
The point was one is metric the other is not, why not just keep it in terms that the average American would use.
55 yards is actually .25 furlongs.
I would highly suspect they're sending the GPS data to the call centers alongside the call.
Not all PSAPs have made the upgrades necessary to handle GPS.
There's also the National Grid: https://www.kovacorp.com/psaps-using-u-s-national-grid-find-911-callers
There's also the National Grid: https://www.kovacorp.com/psaps-using-u-s-national-grid-find-911-callers
Because believe it or not nobody really cares about yards in the US, unless you’re talking about fabric or (NFL) football.
This isn’t Britain
Now if we used Miles & Feet that would be better for the US, but sheesh we aren’t dumb and still know how to use a meter. Lol.
Most people of the world don't use the imperial system. This site has lots of people who are not from the United States.
I would assume that AT&T also has the means to transmit the location.
Otherwise if I am in a location a good distance from home (say San Fran) and AT&T routes the 911 to the local San Fran FD and they get my LA address ... not really helpful.
But then again we have seen stranger things.
Otherwise if I am in a location a good distance from home (say San Fran) and AT&T routes the 911 to the local San Fran FD and they get my LA address ... not really helpful.
But then again we have seen stranger things.
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Very good change. I can't believe that this wasn't already a thing.
So is this ATT's excuse for the across-the-board price increases this June? Yes, almost every plan will see an increase. They don't tell you how much, of course, or what the reason is. Why should they? They're AT&T.