[Asterisk-biz] Tossing out an idea for 911 - your thoughts and comments please.

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jamie Fargen wrote:

> I was just reading today that Verizon is going to open it's 911
> operations to VOIP providers. Since Vz is operating its own VOIP service
> called VoiceWing this just makes sense. I doubt that they would be able
> to allow their own VOIP product to have access to 911 and not make it
> available to everyone else. I am not a lawyer but it seems like it would
> be breaking some kind of anti-competition laws, probably is an
> anti-trust issue. And lets face it with Vz trying to purchase MCI they
> don't want it to look like they are doing anything anti-cooperative. So
> I figure that if the largest bell, ilec, what have is opening up 911 the
> others will be soon to follow. From the article it's a small step, but I
> am sure everything will fall together soon enough.
I'm somewhat suspicious of this offering. It will likely to be 
ridiculously priced, and not competitive with similar Intrado offering.

-alex