It has been a couple years in the making, but beginning May 15th, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon will all begin supporting text-to-911 emergency messages.
The caveat is that while the carriers will be able to handle the services, not every municipality will have the capability to accept emergency text messages. For counties or districts that were developing the platform with a single carrier, however, the will now be able to receive and respond to messages from any of the carriers.
AT&T and Verizon have been testing and developing this feature for a couple years ...
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