Stanaphone did excatly that.<br>
<br>
Stanaphone email dated 10/25/05:<br>
<br>
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<tbody><tr><td height="313" valign="top"><font color="#545454" face="Arial" size="-1">Dear <span name="st">StanaPhone</span> User,<br><br><font color="#9d0a0e" face="Arial" size="-1"><div width="490" valign="middle">
<b>In a few weeks, <span name="st">StanaPhone</span>
will be switching to a new calling procedure because of the FCC.s 911
ruling. When this switch is complete, there will be full separation of
outbound and inbound calling plans.</b></div></font><br>
<font color="#545454" face="Arial" size="-1">This means that you will be assigned a <font color="#545454" face="Arial" size="-1"><b><span name="st">StanaPhone</span> Account Number</b> in addition to your phone number. All calls from
<span name="st">StanaPhone</span> to <span name="st">StanaPhone</span> will still be FREE and UNLIMITED: the only difference is that you will need to call someone.s <b><span name="st">
StanaPhone</span> Account Number</b>, instead of their direct dial number, as you currently do.<br><br>
You will keep your current <span name="st">StanaPhone</span> number. This will automatically become your <font color="#545454" face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Stana-IN</b></font> number that will allow you to receive calls from regular phones (and, if you use our fax service, it will also be your
<b>StanaFax-IN</b> number).
<br><br>Calls from any <span name="st">StanaPhone</span> to <font color="#545454" face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Stana-IN</b></font> numbers will be paid calls. The per-minute rate for calls to <font color="#545454" face="Arial" size="-1">
<b>Stana-IN</b></font> numbers will be the same as for calls within the Continental USA.</font></font></font></td>
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<tr><td height="194" valign="top" width="517"><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br><strong>If I make a call from my <span name="st">StanaPhone</span> to another <span name="st">StanaPhone
</span> Account Number, will I be charged for this call?</strong>
<br>No. You will not be charged. All calls to other <span name="st">StanaPhone</span> Account Numbers are free and unlimited.<br><br>
<strong>If I make a call from my <span name="st">StanaPhone</span> to a Stana-IN number, will I be charged?</strong><br>
Yes. You will be charged at our standard rate for calls to the Continental US.<br><br>
<strong>Yes. You will be charged according to our standard calling rates.</strong>
Yes. You will be charged according to our standard calling rates.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">See the thread on this list by trixter "US e911 reminder" dated 11/25/06:</span><br>
Some excerpt from that thread:<br>
<br>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Well part of the requirement is that you have to cease selling and<br>advertising if you arent compliant. <span name="st">Stanaphone</span> appears to have split<br>their inbound and outbound calls into 2 physically seperate servers (got
<br>a letter from them a while back about that). Interconnected appears to<br>use the word 'and' instead of 'or' for calls to and calls from the pstn.<br>As such they believe that this makes them not interconnected as defined
<br>in the CFR. I dont know if that will work, but that is what they said<br>they did.<br></div>
<span><br></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">
See also the thread on this list dated Feb 14, 2006 by Mojo Jojo:</span><br>
<span style="font-size: larger;"><b>[asterisk-biz] 911 required for termination/origination only? </b></span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">Here is the Stanaphone Press Release dated Nov 22, 2005<br>
<br>
</span>Media Contact<br>
Rurik Bradbury<br>
Director of Communications<br>
<span name="st">StanaPhone</span><br>
212 375 6372<br>
<a href="mailto:rbradbury@intermedia.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">rbradbury@intermedia.net</a><br>
<br>
<br>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
<br>
<br>
<span name="st">StanaPhone</span> is No Longer an "Interconnected VoIP Provider"<br>
<br>
<br>
Company affirms compliance with FCC's November 28 deadline<br>
<br>
New York, November 22, 2005 — <span name="st">StanaPhone</span>, an Internet calling company, is no<br>
longer an "interconnected VoIP provider" and therefore complies with the terms of<br>
the FCC's November 28 deadline for offering 911 access.<br>
<br>
Following a re-engineering of the <span name="st">StanaPhone</span> system, it now offers five different<br>
and separate services. Called 'Stana-PHONE', 'Stana-IN', 'Stana-OUT', 'Stana-<br>
FAX' and 'Stana-CONFERENCE', the services allow users to talk to each other for<br>
free, to receive incoming calls, to make outgoing phone calls to traditional<br>
telephones, to receive faxes and to hold conference calls respectively.<br>
<br>
<span name="st">StanaPhone</span> wishes to make clear that it is not designed as a replacement for a<br>
traditional household or office landline, that it will not be marketed as such, and that<br>
our users should not expect 911 functionality. This notice will also be posted clearly<br>
on the company Web site at <a href="http://www.stanaphone.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.<span name="st">stanaphone</span>.com</a>.<br>
<br>
Says Michael Choupak, president of <span name="st">StanaPhone</span> Communications LLC, "This<br>
announcement represents our unambiguous pledge that we are not an<br>
"interconnected VOIP provider" as defined by the FCC (FCC-05-116A1, paragraph<br>
24) and that we are not subject to the November 28 FCC 911 requirement."<br>
<br>
###<br>
<br>
<br>
About <span name="st">StanaPhone</span><br>
Serving more than 200,000 users worldwide, <span name="st">StanaPhone</span> is an early leader in<br>
calling over the Internet. By offering a simple and cheap way to make calls over a<br>
broadband connection, it gives people in 200 countries the ability to make calls from<br>
anywhere they have Internet access, and – separately – to receive calls at a US<br>
number in an area code of their choice. <span name="st">StanaPhone</span> is headquartered in New York<br>
City.<br>
<br>
For more information, visit <a href="http://www.stanaphone.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.<span name="st">stanaphone</span>.com</a>.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
smbPBX<br>
<br>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 3/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">C F</b> <<a href="mailto:shmaltz@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
shmaltz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If one is not trying to replace a traditional phone company (if for<br>example you need 2 accounts to use a system, 1 for incoming and<br>another for outgoing, or that incoming and outgoing are 2 different<br>services) then they are FCC compliant even if they don't give
<br>E911/911.<br><br>On 3/6/06, Tim Booth <<a href="mailto:tbooth@visioncom.us" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">tbooth@visioncom.us</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>><br>> I see a lot of different companies on the list selling DID's. My question is
<br>> how many of you have an actual FCC complaint service in regards to E911?<br>><br>><br>><br>> Tim Booth<br>><br>> President<br>><br>> VisionCom<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>>
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