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News Release from: Cambridge Positioning Systems | Subject: E-OTD
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 October 2002
Positioning system gets closer to the
mark
Cambridge Positioning Systems reckons its latest trial results show that E-OTD is making strong progress towards delivering the FCC's 2003 accuracy requirements.
Cambridge Positioning Systems reckons its latest trial results show that E-OTD is making strong progress towards delivering the FCC's 2003 accuracy requirements The company, which alongside Nokia delivers E-OTD technology to US GSM operators, said recent operator trial results showed that 81 per cent of calls were now being located within 150m - a major step towards the 2003 requirement of 95% of calls to be within that limit
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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These results build on the FCC filing made last week that showed both T-Mobile and Cingular to be in compliance with the FCC's 2002 accuracy levels.
The latest figures were highlighted at meetings between technical officials drawn from major network equipment vendors in Seattle.
Further progress in deployments - now numbering some 3000 cell sites - were also outlined.
CPS said the latest results - drawn from network trials - were a positive signal to operators who were considering trialling rival technologies and pointed to E-OTD's benefits in terms of: GSM industry wide commitment to 2003 accuracy levels; standardisation of E-OTD within the global GSM community; and consistent FCC compliance in terms of operator filed performance.
CPS Chief Executive Officer Chris Wade said: "E-OTD is the only technology that has real FCC filed operator performance data to support its effectiveness or compliance.
We await to see others provide similar performance data to the FCC about their accuracy".
"Since the recent FCC filings by GSM operators there has been further progress in delivering improved accuracy plus the major vendor commitment that will be necessary to support widespread deployment".
"We continue to work with GSM operators on their FOA deployments and believe that standardised, proven and industry supported technology will prove highly competitive against technologies which are proprietary, have no track record of deployment in GSM nor FCC filed trial results to support their case".
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