[Asterisk-biz] Vonage bows to 911 pressure

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Slashdot is carrying the following article at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/05/05/2217236.shtml?tid=167&tid=215&tid=154&tid=109&tid=123

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No good technology goes unpunished by the inertia police. First it was
the state of Texas that decided to sue Vonage over consumer
impressions of its support of 911 service; now, as kamikaze-Tech
writes "Luispr, a member of the Vonage VoIP Forum has posted a TMC.net
article titled VoIP E911: Michigan Atty. General Says Vonage
Misleads." That article notes Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox's
announcement "that Internet-based telephone service provider Vonage
Holdings Corporation will now face legal action for misleading
consumers about the company's emergency 9-1-1 service."        

Note that this is specifically about ads alleged to mislead customers
about 911 capabilities, related to but distinct from the objection to
VoIP that it doesn't in the first place provide the same location
information to 911 operators that conventional telephone service does.
See also this earlier story about the FCC pushing 911 requirements on
VoIP providers.     
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