Non-Nationwide Commercial Mobile Radio Services Provider Access To Indoor 9-1-1 Location Accuracy Technology Test Results

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 4th Report & Order on Wireless E911 Location Accuracy Requirements (FCC Order) requires Test Bed results to be shared with non-nationwide Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS) providers (NNPs). In order to obtain access to the above mentioned Test Bed results, the NNPs should follow the instructions provided on this page and address all questions to the contact person listed below.

Once you have obtained access to your account, you will find information related to how the NNPs are expected to use the Test Bed results and related ATIS standards. This information will be in the form of PowerPoint slides, stored under your account’s documentation folder.

Access to Test Bed data - Instructions

STEP 1 - Verify entity (CMRS) and provide single representative contact details

Please send an email to Stage1DataRequest@911locationtestbed.org from a representative contact person using your CMRS provider email account, and include the representative’s phone number. You will receive a response email and/or a phone call requesting additional information to confirm your identity.

Once the Test Bed LLC has your information, your credentials will be verified, i.e., the Test Bed LLC needs to verify that your company is a non-nationwide CMRS and that you are its authorized representative, you will be informed if more information is required.

STEP 2 – Obtain log-in credentials to get access to Storage Platform

Once your identity has been verified, you will receive detailed instructions via email that show you how to log into your dedicated and secure account on the Storage Platform. Inside your account, you’ll find two agreements: Terms Of Use and the Non-Disclosure Agreement.

STEP 3 – Terms Of Use and Non-Disclosure agreements, review and execution

As required by the FCC, confidentiality of Test Bed results must be ensured and the Storage Platform contains Terms of Use and Non-Disclosure agreements for your company to review and execute with the Test Bed LLC. Please note, as required by the FCC’s Order, the non-disclosure terms will be the same as those imposed on the Tier I CMRS providers.

STEP 4 – Payment instructions and transaction

Once the two agreements (Terms Of Use and Non-Disclosure) are executed, you’ll receive payment instructions via email. These instructions will guide you to a site that can collect a credit card payment for the required $950 cost associated with accessing the Test Bed data.

STEP 5 – Accessing Test Bed data

Your Storage Platform account will receive the Test Bed data once payment is confirmed. You now have access to the requested data and its use according to Terms Of Use and Non-Disclosure agreements.

Contact information

If you have any questions about this process, instructions or the Test Bed, please contact the person listed below:

Mr. Oskar S. Magnusson
Email: omagnusson@911locationtestbed.org

9-1-1 Location Technologies Test Bed, LLC
CTIA®
1400 16th Street NW, Suite 600
Washington DC 20036

Background on the Test Bed LLC

In 2015, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules that require the nationwide wireless providers to establish an independently administered and transparent indoor Test Bed to test and verify that location technologies are capable of meeting the Commission’s new location accuracy requirements for wireless calls to 9-1-1 emergency services. (See paragraphs 121 to 132 of the FCC’s Order.) With regard to non-nationwide CMRS providers (NNPs) that cannot participate directly in the test bed, the FCC required the test bed administrator to make available to the NNPs the same data available to participating CMRS providers and under the same confidentiality requirements established by the test bed administrator. (Para. 132, FCC Order)

At the direction of its member companies, CTIA® established the 9-1-1 Location Technologies Test Bed, LLC (“Test Bed LLC”) as an independent company to administer and operate the indoor Test Bed consistent with the FCC’s rules. The Test Bed LLC selected the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (“ATIS”) as the Test Bed Program Manager. The Test Bed LLC also selected LCC Design Services, a TechMahindra company, to administer and execute the Test Bed.

The Test Bed LLC and its operations are modeled on the FCC’s CSRIC III and IV methodologies and recommendations and is established consistent with the Commission’s Order. Test Bed LLC has also directed the Program Manager (ATIS) and Administrator/Executor (LCC) to implement the Test Bed consistent with the recommendations of ATIS’ Emergency Services Interconnection Forum (“ESIF”) Emergency Services & Methodologies (“ESM”) Subcommittee develops requisite test methodologies through a collaborative multi-stakeholder process.

Stage 1 of the Test Bed involves indoor testing of nationwide wireless carriers’ horizontal location technologies currently deployed for E9-1-1 in Atlanta and San Francisco. The test results are used to support carrier compliance reporting for the FCC’s interim location accuracy benchmarks. Nationwide wireless carrier Stage 1 testing occurred during the second and third quarter of 2016. Nationwide wireless carriers participating in Stage 1 will have the opportunity to request a retest or test additional deployed 9-1-1 location technologies through Stage 1A.

Important Note: Test Bed performance results are confidential and proprietary. They are shared only with the designated NNP, under NDA, and must be properly protected and shall not be further disseminated by the NNP.