As used in this Act:
The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Transportation.
The term "State" means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, or any territory or possession of the United States.
The term "public safety answering point" or "PSAP" means a facility that has been designated to receive 9-1-1 calls and route them to emergency service personnel.
The term "wireless carrier" means a provider of commercial mobile services or any other radio communications service that the Federal Communications Commission requires to provide wireless 9-1-1 service.
The term "enhanced wireless 9-1-1 service" means any enhanced 9-1-1 service so designated by the Federal Communications Commission in the proceeding entitled "Revision of the Commission's Rules to Ensure Compatibility with Enhanced 9-1-1 Emergency Calling Systems" (CC Docket No. 94-102; RM-8143), or any successor proceeding.
The term "wireless 9-1-1 service" means any 9-1-1 service provided by a wireless carrier, including enhanced wireless 9-1-1 service.
The term "emergency dispatch providers" shall include governmental and nongovernmental providers of emergency dispatch services.
The term "IP-enabled voice service" has the meaning given the term "interconnected VoIP service" by section 9.3 of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations (47 CFR 9.3).
The term "other emergency communications service" means the provision of emergency information to a public safety answering point via wire or radio communications, and may include 9-1-1 and enhanced 9-1-1 service.
The term "other emergency communications service provider" means-
The term "enhanced 9-1-1 service" means the delivery of 9-1-1 calls with automatic number identification and automatic location identification, or successor or equivalent information features over the wireline E911 network (as defined in section 9.3 of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations (47 C.F.R. 9.3) as of July 23, 2008) and equivalent or successor networks and technologies. The term also includes any enhanced 9-1-1 service so designated by the Commission in its Report and Order in WC Docket Nos. 04-36 and 05-196, or any successor proceeding.
1 So in original. Two pars. (8) have been enacted.
47 U.S.C. § 615b
EDITORIAL NOTES
REFERENCES IN TEXTThis Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 106-81, 113 Stat. 1286, known as the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999, which enacted sections 615 to 615b of this title, amended sections 222 and 251 of this title, and enacted provisions set out as notes under sections 609 and 615 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1999 Amendments note set out under section 609 of this title and Tables.The Communications Act of 1934, referred to in par. (9)(A), is act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of this title and Tables.
CODIFICATIONSection was enacted as part of the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999, and not as part of the Communications Act of 1934 which comprises this chapter.
AMENDMENTS2008-Par. (8). Pub. L. 110-283, §201(b), added par. (8) defining "other emergency communications service". Pub. L. 110-283, §101(3), added par. (8) defining "IP-enabled voice service".Pars. (9), (10). Pub. L. 110-283, §201(b), added pars. (9) and (10).