BELL INDUSTRY ADVISORY

March 28, 2001

9-1-1 Public Emergency Reporting Service (PERS)

Bell Canada announces the introduction of the transmission of additional information between Local Service Providers (LSPs) and Bell Canada’s 9-1-1 PERS system for the purpose of providing 9-1-1 service to the LSPs end customers.  Additional fields will identify the province of the caller and the name of the LSPs data provider.  Additional optional location information can also be provided.  These changes are expected to become functional in early IVQ2001.

Interconnection is via dedicated trunk side connections to Bell Canada’s Voice Network to facilitate transport of 9-1-1 calls from the LSPs end customers through Bell Canada’s voice network to the appropriate 9-1-1 Service Bureau, as well as via data connections to allow the updating of Bell Canada’s 9-1-1 PERS Data System with the pertinent LSP end customers’ calling number and location information.

These changes must be included in the customer record information file in order for the file to be accepted by the 9-1-1 PERS system.

This interface was previously disclosed in Bell Interface Document BID-0024, dated 
May 2000 in Bell Industry Advisory BIA-1d.  The revised interface is described in Bell Interface Document BID-0024, dated March 2001.  Bell Canada Interface Documents are available in both electronic and hard copy formats.  Bell will invoice recipients $50 for each electronic version and $65 for each hard copy.  Previous purchasers of BID-0024 will be invoiced $15 for the updated electronic version and $20 for the updated hard copy version.  Please note that the prices are subject to change without notice.