What's the story with E911 and the Kyocera 7135?

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Yea Right - 10 Oct 2006 23:29 GMT

I have a Kyocera 7135. All the specs for this phone say it has GPS. The
preferences menu gives me an option to set position reporting to 911 only or
always.

Still Verizon Wireless tells me that this phone is not E911 capable and
can't be activated on the network. I gave them the ESN and they said no, not
E911 capable.

Is it or isn't it E911 capable? If not how come I have GPS features, are
these not the same thing?

Thanks
Jack

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Slick - 11 Oct 2006 11:50 GMT

E911 Capable and having a GPS for route directions is not the same. Look at
this article about E911 introduction on Verizon:
http://www.mobile-tech-today.com/perl/story/15514.html

>I have a Kyocera 7135. All the specs for this phone say it has GPS. The
> preferences menu gives me an option to set position reporting to 911 only
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> Thanks
> Jack

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Yea Right - 11 Oct 2006 15:44 GMT

> E911 Capable and having a GPS for route directions is not the same.

Yes, I know

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Michael Wise - 11 Oct 2006 17:03 GMT

> I have a Kyocera 7135. All the specs for this phone say it has GPS. The
> preferences menu gives me an option to set position reporting to 911 only or
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> Is it or isn't it E911 capable? If not how come I have GPS features, are
> these not the same thing?

Thoroughly discussed here in the past:

http://snipurl.com/yquz

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http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=7135+gps&num=10&scoring=r&hl=en&as_e
pq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=alt.cellular.verizon&as_usubject=&as_uauthors
=&lr=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=11&as_ma
xm=10&as_maxy=2006&safe=off

--Mike
(former 7135 user)

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