Mahoning commissioners OK agreement with AT&T for 911 upgrade

March 29, 2012 at 7:55p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County commissioners approved a $2 million, five-year 911 emergency call-handling agreement with AT&T that will make it easier to consolidate the county’s eight 911 answering points into fewer locations.

The digital electronic call-handling server will be at an AT&T location in Akron, and it should be in service by the end of this year, said Maggi McGee, county 911 director.

“It will be transparent to the public. Everything is going to be exactly the same. There will be no delay,” in emergency call handling, McGee said at today's commissioners' meeting.

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