iOS 11.3 to add support for Advanced Mobile Location
Apple has announced that iOS 11.3 which will go live this spring, will include support for Advanced Mobile Location (AML), which automatically send a user's current location when making a call to emergency services in countries where AML is supported.
According to EENA (the European Emergency Number Association) AML offers an up to 4,000-fold improvement in caller location accuracy compared to the compared to the Cell-ID solution, with 85 per cent of calls being located in a radius of less than 50 metres.
EENA also states that in the UK, AML is supported by BT (which acts as the country’s Stage 1 public safety answering point – PSAP), and all of the country's mobile networks. On the handset side, it is currently supported by Android devices(beginning in July 2016), together with HTC, Sony, Alcatel and Samsung.
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