Cell Phone for Senior - 911 Limitations?
I have a senior relative who recently sold his house and is moving into a high-rise apartment building.
He wants to ditch his POTS landline and just use a cell phone but our concern is with 911.
With landline 911 if he can't give the dispatcher his address they will know where he is located, not so with a cell.
I understand they can approximate his cell phone location with GPS and cell tower triangulation but how accurate is this?
Even if they could pinpoint his location I assume they wouldn't know what floor of the apartment building he was in.
Are these valid concerns?
He wants to ditch his POTS landline and just use a cell phone but our concern is with 911.
With landline 911 if he can't give the dispatcher his address they will know where he is located, not so with a cell.
I understand they can approximate his cell phone location with GPS and cell tower triangulation but how accurate is this?
Even if they could pinpoint his location I assume they wouldn't know what floor of the apartment building he was in.
Are these valid concerns?