Does E911 Work With 5G?

Michael Tindall

With higher-speed networks coming online, it’s a natural question: does E911 work with 5G? The answer is yes. If you’re a cell phone owner, your provider’s E911 technology automatically provides E911 centers with your mobile phone number, cell site and sector, and your latitude and longitude location if the Public Service Access Point (PSAP) – your local 911 contact center – can receive it.

Your VoIP calls, whether they’re delivered to a landline or cell phone on a 5G network, can also take advantage of E911. For example, when you purchase or port a new phone number to Commio, our E911 solution allows you to set an address each phone number. When dialed, it routes like a VoIP call to thinQ, then we route it to our E911 provider, who then sends it to the correct PSAP.

Have questions about E911 for your numbers? thinQ is here to help. Set up a demo today.

Date posted: April 27, 2021

Topic: Intelligent Call Routing   Outbound   Outbound Voice  

Tags: E911   Least Cost Routing  

Michael Tindall

CTO Michael Tindall leads Commio's product development and engineering teams. While attending Clemson University, Michael co-founded Tsoft Solutions, purchased by ClearSky Networks. Next he built and ran support for US Networks. Michael then worked for Bandwidth till he was approached by Aaron Leon to build a cloud-based routing system. The rest is history. Michael is a “40 under 40” winner, and one of only 18 OpenSIPS Certified professionals worldwide. When not coding the future of telecom, you’ll find him enjoying movies, cars, entertaining, and exercising.

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