Belgian emergency services can often mobile phone-callers that emergency calls do not pinpoint exactly because they are given the necessary software is not for. This is still available, but by arguing about the cost is not yet deployed.
According to the Belgian newspaper The Standard makes legal debates about the costs of that delay to the emergency services that the software must implement. As a result, callers who are in an emergency call to a mobile phone use, regularly to the emergency services to explain where they are located, while fixed lines – about a third of all calls for help – not needed. This is despite a in 2008 adopted legislation under which the four large Belgian companies the bill for the necessary software have to pay.
Because of this obligation, an amendment in the telecom law is necessary, the arrangements to be years delayed and seemed, partly due to the lack of a new Belgian government, is no solution in sight. Because there soon may be a government formed will be, the change in the law might still accelerate. Regulator Bipt can then the telecoms companies require the software to be able to pay.
The Belgian organisation Astrid, which is committed to the communications network for the emergency services, due to the absence of the required software at its own expense a system set up. This allows emergency services to see which mobile phone tower the caller is using. However, this is not always exactly, eliminating the need for a more precise positioning continues to exist. The technique is currently only one emergency centre used, but must be made from december are available everywhere.