[Asterisk-biz] 911 order is released

[Peter Wemm]

On Friday 03 June 2005 11:12 am, Jason P. Talley wrote:
> The 911 order has been released on the FCC's website
> http://www.fcc.gov <http://www.fcc.gov/> .

Wow, there is some truely hairbrained stuff in there.

For example, Page 48 requires that VoIP providers supply E911 warning 
stickers first, *before* beginning service and the customer is required 
to place them on their equipment.

I guess this means we now need to put E911 warning stickers on our 
monitors if we use a softphone, and we have to wait for them to arrive 
before we can use it.

However, the formal text contains interesting wording:

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Interconnected VoIP service. An interconnected Voice over Internet 
protocol (VoIP) service is a service that: (1) enables real-time, 
two-way voice communications; (2) requires a broadband connection from 
the user’s location; (3) requires Internet protocol-compatible customer 
premises equipment (CPE); and (4) permits users generally to receive 
calls that originate on the public switched telephone network and to
terminate calls to the public switched telephone network.
==========

(2) is the key.  Does dialup compatibility (ie: you'd need to allow iLBC 
or g.729) mean you don't require broadband, and make you exempt?
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