Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Dec 19, 2012) The new 9-1-1 Dispatch Center equipment has been installed .

The next generation equipment was installed at the Law Enforcement Center in Jamestown with no interuption in service on Wednesday.

Officials say there will be adjustments to the system over the next few weeks.

Some of the new features benefit the deaf and hearing-impaired.

Future 9-1-1 features will include the ability to send text messages.

The Stutsman County equipment comes with a price tag of $163,000.

It’s pairing with Richland County,with that county paying equipment costs of $158,000.

Costs were paid from 911 funding accumulated and saved over years by both counties.

Stutsman County’s system was put in service in 1999, and was an analog telephone system, created in the 1970s and 1980s.