Federal report prices national next generation 911 rollout

StateScoop: After sitting in limbo for months, an extensive report compiled by federal agencies was published on Friday revealing that a national upgrade to a next generation 911 system would cost between $9.5 billion and $12.7 billion and take 10 years to complete if nothing goes wrong.

Mandated by a 2012 law, the 334-page report provides Congress a starting point to discuss what it would take to deploy the infrastructure for a new generation of emergency response communications systems across the country.

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