[Asterisk-Users] Voicepulse not accepting new customers. (FCC E911)

[Paul]

Patrick May wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:52:21PM +0100, Francesco Peeters wrote:
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>>On Tue, November 29, 2005 18:36, gw at adcomcorp.com said:
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>>>Hello All,
>>>It seems that voicepulse is not taking any new orders on the standard
>>>service plans (though vp connect seems unaffected) due to the fcc
>>>rulings.
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>>>We'll see what happens, anyone having similar problems with other
>>>services as of today?
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>>>Greg
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>>WHat fcc rulings? What did I miss?  :-o
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>>-- 
>>Francesco Peeters
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>VOIP service providers are now required to provide E911 service to their
>customers or they may not sign up additional customers. This is in the US
>only. One provider has about 95% of their customers set up for E911 service. I
>know that CNN had a couple of articles on it on their website in the Tech
>section.
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>The big stink was the FCC gave everyone 120 days to implement. Next stop will
>probably be US District Court in Washington, D.C.
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>Patrick
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I checked the voicepulse and broadvoice websites. It looks to me like
the online signup is still there for both. I didn't go as far as
actually entering payment info but I would think if they were disabling
it they would do that at step 1.