Last month, wireless carriers Verizon and T-Mobile implemented voluntary georouting for 988 calls placed on their networks -- a move that accounted for about half of all calls to the Lifeline ...
The volunteers answer phone calls from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images, FILE Last month, wireless carriers Verizon and T-Mobile ...
Ahead of 988 Lifeline launching in July 2022 ... 17, two major carriers, T-Mobile and Verizon, have been routing 988 calls based on geographical location, Crehan Neumann said.
A senior administration official said at the time that T-Mobile and Verizon were already routing calls to the lifeline with local crisis centers and that AT&T was expected to do so within the next ...
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FCC Requires All Wireless Phone Carriers to Implement Georouting to 988 Lifeline
By a unanimous vote on Oct. 17, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will now require wireless carriers in the United ...
The expansion enhances public safety by ensuring that first responders and local officials using the fairgrounds as incident ...