our dispatcher a telephone number and your exact location. So who has access to this tool? A very tricky question with a pretty vague answer. For the most part, E911 hardware and software has only been made available to "Public Safety Answering Points" (Enhanced 1), otherwise known as your friendly 911 dispatcher. "Geometrix is one of the wireless location systems that is used for E-911. Geometrix is a high-performance, cost effective Wireless E911 Solution offered by the Grayson Wireless division of Allen Telecom Inc" (Geometrix 1). Several cellular companies have signed contracts with telecommunication companies such as Geometrix so that they can offer this E911 service to their subscribing customers. These companies include AT&T Wireless, Verizon and Cellular One; now Cingular. Cingular ju7st recently signed a contract for the E911 in May of 2002. Agreeing to "deploy the network-based location technology on its Time Division Multiple Access network" (FCC 1), Cingular voluntarily contributed 100,000 to the U.S. Treasury in support of the E911. It has been widely publicized that the "right people" are given access to this new form of technology. However, this is not always the case. Just like the
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