TIA J-STD-110

This scope of this Standard is limited to text messaging to 9-1-1 emergency services for wireless operator native Short Message Service (SMS) capabilities. The support of text messaging to 9-1-1 emergency services for thirdparty over-the-top SMS-like texting applications is beyond the scope of this Standard. Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and Rich Communication Services (RCS) to 9-1-1 are for further study.

Purpose

The purpose of this Standard is to define the requirements, architecture, and procedures for text messaging to 9- 1-1 emergency services using native wireless operator SMS capabilities for the existing generation and next generation (NG9-1-1) Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs).

Application

This Standard is applicable to wireless operators, SMS vendors, public safety, emergency services vendors, and PSAP vendors.