Comments on: Cell carriers fined over missed e911 deadlines

Feds slap $2.83 million in fees on Sprint Nextel, Alltel and U.S. Cellular in a move designed to demonstrate the importance of location-sensitive phones for mobile subscribers.

[Leria]

If the problem is with changing phones

And people do not want to do that..... simply make it mandatory for them to switch phones or their service will stop working! Simply stop supporting the older phones that cannot do this E911 on your network, and you will force the lazy laggarts to switch phones.

[bobcode]

bad service

Cutting off service is bad for the customer. And that could happen at the worst possible moment. Besides, 911 is supposed to work regardless the service plan, so that shouldn't be cut off, so the plan is defeated.

[SeizeCTRL]

But..

Does this really have to do with e911 or is it a way for us to be tagged and tracked?

To me it's one of those things where they bait you with the safety feature like "what if you were in a car wreck and needed 911 to find you" without telling you that you essentially become no different than animals tagged with tracking devices and monitored like some wildlife show.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid???

[Michael00360]

notifications

I don't remember getting a notification from Altell about the cell phone change. I've had mine for about 3 years now so I would think that I would have gotten a notification. Also, some people have very old phones (such as the brick phone) and they don't want to give it up.