[Asterisk-biz] 911 Thread

[Mojo Jojo]

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?


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----- 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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