[Asterisk-biz] Vonage bows to 911 pressure

[Mojo Jojo]

Vonage already offered 911 but got sued anyway for not notifying some people 
the way they saw fit.

I have had a Vonage account since they started and as far back as I can 
remember, they made me well aware of the 911 issues.

They were sued anyhow because some jack wants to blame someone for his house 
burning down.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <alex at pilosoft.com>
To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" 
<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Vonage bows to 911 pressure


> On Thu, 5 May 2005, Paul wrote:
>
>> We really need to convince the regulators that mandatory 911 support for
>> voip is senseless. Wireless 911 is based on the tower you are using at
>> the time, not the wireless company you have an account with. Real 911
>> support for voip would place a burden on the ISP to provide IP to
>> physical address mapping. Even worse, the voip provider might have to
>> refuse device registration when such mapping is not available in order
>> to comply with the regulations. You take your ata or softphone to a
>> hotel whose ISP does not provide the mapping and you can't make calls.
>> That dog won't hunt.
> All of the above makes sense for mobile providers. Sort of. For fixed line
> providers, you have no excuses.
>
> For mobile providers, you *must* give an option to the customer to provide
> their location in case they have emergency. Face it - people don't move
> *all that often* and all the talk about "hunting for the location" is just
> creating excuses to not to provide emergency service in the most likely
> case - when the customer at his stationary location.
>
> I don't see what's wrong with FCC requiring that.
>
> -alex
>
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