Podcast 47: Next Generation 911 Discussion with the FCC's Robert Kenny

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that they are in a period of public discussion about what they call Next Generation 911 (NG911). Current 911 emergency calls are voice only. However, young people have been known to text emergency messages to 911 because of their familiarity and comfort with text messaging. In some cases, such as the threat of gunmen, it was probably too dangerous to speak outloud. Unfortunately, the current 911 system does not deal at all with text messages.