What does E911 stand for?

Some service providers do not supply 911 at all; others have what is known as Enhanced 911 services.

Customers with enhanced 911 pay a 75-cent surcharge per month, which is used to pay for training, upgraded equipment, infrastructure improvements and incentives to regionalize 911 operations.

Verizon said it will provide its Enhanced 911 (E911) emergency calling system to VoIP service providers and vendors, enabling them to connect their VoIP customers' 911 calls to Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs).

VoiceWing will test a solution this summer in New York City that will deliver emergency calls over a dedicated network to the Enhanced 911 system and automatically provide emergency response operators with the telephone number and associated name and address of the VoiceWing caller.

But it's a big issue for us because we have worked so long to have enhanced 911 service and this just throws it out the window.

New technology known as Enhanced 911 pinpoints cell phone locations using one of two methods: global positioning system chips that communicate with satellites or software that triangulates a phone's position using signals sent to cell towers.

Unimax an industry provider of change-management software that optimizes enterprise telephony investment has announced that its 2nd Nature software streamlines cumbersome database management associated with enhanced 911 (E911), which provides vital, lifesaving information to the 911 public safety network, thereby enhancing employee safety and facility protection and reducing employer liability.

Enhanced 911 (E911) service automatically provides this critical information.