Large Ohio county to spend big bucks on wireless 911 system
Posted Nov 22nd 2006 6:50PM by Michael Sciannamea
Filed under: Cellular, Government, Applications
Ohio's Cuyahoga County, which includes the city of Cleveland, says it will be investing nearly $3 million on a wireless 911 system. The money to pay for the system will come from a 32-cent state surcharge on cellphone bills.
Cuyahoga joins 11 other counties in the state that have similar systems, which uses GPS technology to pinpoint callers' locations from their cellphones, and a mapping system that will transmit maps to emergency responders.
Hopefully this will spur more counties and regions throughout the country to take similar action.
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