[Asterisk-biz] FW: 911 Legislation

[Me]

Well, I keep asking myself the big question...

Why not GPS?

People can now be located for 911 purposes using GPS devices imbedded in 
their phones right?

So, why hasn't any of the manufacturers tried to imbed GPS in an ATA?

This was one of our billion dollar ideas but taking on this task ourselves 
would be more than we could/want to handle.

Why not follow what the cell phone people have done regarding 911, not only 
with GPS but just in general? It's the same concept! A device that is or 
could be mobile and not attached to a specific address.

Maybe I am missing something but... Why is this so hard for all of us to 
figure out? Can we not just do whatever the cell phone people are doing? As 
for laws, why are we looked at so differently than cell phone providers when 
it comes to 911?

Is it that we need to start calling our devices Mobile or Portable phones 
devices? Maybe we can call them TRAVEL CAPABLE phones which in my opinion 
would put us right under the same rules as cell phones.

I am just babbling here, just ideas and thoughts. It's entirely possible 
that I have missed some HUGE reasons why many of the things I have said 
above just don't make sense.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rusty Shackleford" <john97 at flatline.com>
To: "'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion'" 
<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:19 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-biz] FW: 911 Legislation


>> You have not thought of ALL of the BAD things that can happen
>> before the dispatcher can ask for your address. You may be
>
>> 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
>
> And the cell phone carriers' defense for this is...?
>
> Answer: There is no way to tie a physical address to a mobile device.
> The same can be said of VoIP devices.
>
> That soft-phone on your laptop, or the little ATA you cart along with
> you on business trips will usually work no matter where it's plugged
> into the net. It is folly to suggest that there is a practical solution
> that will make it behave "like a real phone line" until IP ADDRESSES
> exist in an ANI-like database.
>
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