[Asterisk-biz] 911 Thread

[bclem at im-online.net]

Here here!

Brent Clements

Quoting Mojo Jojo <mylist at lightwavetech.com>:

> And let's not forget how serious this is for most of the mom and pop VOIP
> shops in existence today... They will be gone a few months after this law
> goes into effect!
>
> I can't believe folks on this list and others aren't making MUCH more
> noise..
>
> How can the FCC and politicians just jump up and put so many small
> businesses that are the very reasons VOIP is where it is today out of
> business?
>
>
> Private Label Wholesale Internet Access!
> http://www.YourOwnISP.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul" <digium-list at 9ux.com>
> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
> <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 8:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] 911 Thread
>
>
> > Anonymous Account wrote:
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> > What is truly ridiculous is the idea that I can't have a wisip or
> > softphone account because I can't waive or opt out of 911. Do I have to
> > wear a monitoring device like some parolees do in order to use my wisip
> > phone away from my official 911 database location? I guess all IP phones
> > and ata's will need GPS technology added. Asterisk and other FOSS
> > solutions will be outlawed because the sysadmin can easily tweak it so
> > that it send s what looks like valid GPS data without buying any GPS
> > hardware.
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> > This is not whining at all. Give the FCC a free hand and it will be
> > cheaper to use a non-US voip provider for all your US termination. Will
> > the FCC try to outlaw origination-only voip providers since they will have
> > no need at all to provide 911 service? They just might have to do that
> > because otherwise I will get my DID's from one vendor and do all my
> > termination through a low-cost offshore vendor. What next, big brother?
> >
> > I say the FCC needs some serious ass kicking. If they are so worried about
> > my safety they can run copper into my home for free and connect a red
> > phone to it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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