Chmn. Martin still hasn’t started to circulate an order addressin...
Chmn. Martin still hasn’t started to circulate an order addressing Sprint Nextel’s failure to meet a Jan. 2005, deadline for 95% of subscribers to have location-capable handsets. Martin has circulated orders addressing failures by the other large carriers. But…
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Sprint’s failure is tied to problems converting subscribers on Nextel’s legacy iDEN network to GPS handsets as a result of a software glitch affecting millions of Motorola iDEN phones. The FCC is still reportedly looking more closely at that. “I'm not surprised,” said a public safety source. “Sprint Nextel certainly raised more issues than some of the others.” Among the major carriers, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Alltel and U.S. Cellular offer handset-based E-911 solutions. Cingular and T-Mobile provide a network-based E-911 solution.