After a successful testing phase, Mexico becomes the first Latin American country to implement AML. As every second counts when responding to an emergency, making accurate location available for emergency services can ensure the efficient dispatch o ...

Emergency services were recently not accessible in different European countries for several hours at a time Netherlands was struck last week by an important outage of the main telecommunications provider KPN. This resulted in the 112 emergency nu ...

Last February, Manchester resident Liisi Kadanik noticed her grandmother was struggling to breathe while on a video-call from Estonia. She immediately called 112, which managed to dispatch an ambulance in Estonia, all the way from the UK, savin ...

What is the attitude of law enforcement agency staff and first responders towards security in mass gathering events? Citizen’s risk perception The events in Europe in recent years have made security and risk perception a topic with high interest. C ...

144 Notruf Niederösterreich PSAP renews Certificate of Quality Standard The European Emergency Number Association (EENA) is delighted to announce that the 144 Notruf Niederösterreich PSAP (Lower Austria) has renewed its Certificate of Quality Standa ...

As a few minutes (or even seconds) can sometimes determine the outcomes of an emergency situation, there is no doubt of the importance of accurate location when responding to an emergency call. AML is active in the smartphone operating systems develo ...

The European Commission published on 25 February a new delegated regulation on the provision of accurate caller location information to emergency services. As of 17 March 2022, all smartphones in the European Union will have to be equipped with a tec ...

RO - FINANCING CONTRACT FOR THE MODERNIZATION OF THE NATIONAL 112 EMERGENCY CALL SYSTEM SIGNED. EU funds minister Rovana Plumb and the director of the Special Telecommunications Service Ionel Vasilca signed on Tuesday, August 28, the financing contr ...

Apple released iOS 11.3 on 29 March 2018, the twelfth official update to the iOS 11 operating system that first came out in September of 2017. The update includes support for Advanced Mobile Location (AML), offering a more accurate location when p ...

THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF 112 RELATED EMERGENCY CALLING APPLICATIONS IN EUROPE BUT THEY ARE RESTRICTED TO A CERTAIN PSAP. ETSI has released today the Technical Specification TS 103 478. Developed by the ETSI special committee on Emergency Communications ...