To mark National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, the Ottawa Police Service issued a news release outlining some of the more outrageous calls the 911 system has received. In 2021, the service handled 667,000 calls. As the pandemic wanes, those numbers are expected to increase.
Wednesday was the deadline for interested intervenors to file their comments on the CRTC’s investigation of evolving to a 1000-block pooling (TBP) system to conserve telephone numbers. The...
The CRTC has again extended its deadline for comments and replies on a proposal to implement thousand-block pooling. The recommendation is to reduce block pools to 1,000 phone numbers, slashed from...
Provincial public safety agencies are requesting to the CRTC that they be included on the list of authorities that must be notified by carriers when a major network outage occurs and that the...
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