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The 12th eSafety Forum Plenary meeting titled – “The eCall Summit: Time for deployment” was held in Brussels on 29 October 2009.
Emilio Dávila of DG INFSO reaffirmed that the eCall initiative has a strong political backing at the European level. Mr Dávila stated that the EC expected significant progress in deploying eCall by Member states before the end of 2009 and drew attention to the recent “eCall: Time for Deployment” communication, that was reported on in a previous ITS Radar International article.
Stakeholders from the Telecom side, the PSAP side and the in-vehicle side of the eCall programme have agreed that the necessary preparations are well underway and that eCall will be deployed. ETSI/3GPP and CEN presented the status of their standardisation work on eCall. The technical specifications and standards were demonstrated to have reached the later stages of the development cycle. It was agreed that the time has now come to start carrying out the eCall pilot tests that are being planned by the eCall Implementation Platform.
Additional information on the summit and a copy of the presentations is available on the European Commission’s website.
