[Asterisk-biz] 911 Thread

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Expecting some kind of "out" by thinking that FCC would let someone
"waive" or opt out of 911 is ridiculous.  You (as a VoIP customer) in
essence would be waiving someone else's right to expect 911 to be
available by a telephone.  By that I mean if you have a customer,
guest, contract worker or whatever on your premise and an emergency
arises that requires a call to 911 -- that visitor or customer has an
expectation that 911 will be available.  It doesn't take Perry Mason
to figure out what would follow next if it wasn't and injury or death
followed the inability to make a 911 call.

911 and an expectation of 911 on EVERYthing that looks like a
telephone will not go away.  VoIP providers will just have to deal
with this if they want to be anything more than a hobby.

Quit whining and support folks like Jason P. Talley if not with $$$
then a campaign similar to what the Linux community is doing to out
the claims of SCO.  If you don't know what I'm talking about just
Google SCO + IBM + Linux or just go to www.groklaw.net and see what
can be done by a united technology community.