[Asterisk-biz] FW: 911 Legislation

[Alexander Lopez]

Bottom posting to keep continuity.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michael
Welter
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:18 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] FW: 911 Legislation

jltaylor wrote:
> I'm working with Texas State Rep Frost's office on wording for this
bill.
> Some type of language will make it through this session.
> 
> The language below will make it almost impossible for customers to
signup on
> the web and provision their own service.
> 
> It appears that this legislation favors the LEC's.
> 
> Cellular is not required to give notice about how 911 may not work
properly.
> I live so far out that when the electricity goes off, my phone service
will
> fail in about two hours and the LEC is not required to have me sign
off on a
> document that warns me of not having 911 after a storm.
> The argument that VOIP service is Interstate is a good one.
> 
> However, some type of acceptable legislation would afford us some kind
of
> protection from the standpoint of "we are complying with the law"
> 


I know enough to know I don't understand this problem.

Let's say I install VoIP phones at 123 Main, Denver, CO.  Let's say I 
know that 123 Main is in Denver PD and Denver Fire jurisdictions.

Let's also say the PSAP for Denver PD and Denver Fire can be reached 
using a ten-digit telephone number.

What would happen if I sent an emergency call to the ten-digit PSAP 
number (with the proper CallerID)?  What if the number I sent (a DID 
number) was not in the address database--wouldn't the dispatcher just 
ask for an address?

And what is the difference between 911 and E911.  Isn't E911 the address

database?  Can't we provide 911 service without addresses?



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You have not thought of ALL of the BAD things that can happen before the
dispatcher can ask for your address. You may be choking, on fire, shot
in the throat or mouth, mentally incompetent to describe your location,
non-English speaking, stupid!, too scared to speak as they will kill
you, mustered up your last bit of energy to crawl across the room and
dial 911 where you hear as you die!..... "I'm sorry but I am hanging up
now"

Afterwards, your next of kin contact the offices of "We Will, and Due
Sue, LLP". They then contact me and take everything I own under the
premise that; I put you in danger, and showed reckless abandon toward
your basic needs or safety. Two years later after my wife and kids leave
me for the lawyer that 'cleaned me out' I will sit under a bridge and
mumble words like, Voip, Asterisk, PSAP, and "all I wanted to do is save
people money"..

Understand NOW!!!!!

Alex