E911 Legislation (was) Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoiPSupply Dot Com

[Chris Travers]

I know I shouldn't feed a troll, but.......

Personally, I think that it is completely reasonable for people offering VOIP to PSTN termination services to pay for E911 when they offer such termination services to customers as primary telephone lines.  I know taxes are unpopular with some people,  but our emergency response infrastructure needs to be supported somehow.

Now, you might have a point if you pointed out that you may have too many tax juristictions involved to make it work.  But this is a matter of implimentation, not a matter of the concept.  Maybe we need some reform in how this is handled to accomodate VOIP but saying that those who provide gateway services to the PSTN are not responsible for helping support our emergency services  on the PSTN is simply crazy.  We are not talking about "VOIP" here per se, but rather the connectivity to and from the PSTN.

Secondly, I assume that you want fair competition.  In that case, you can either get rid of E911 service entirely or force non-traditional telecoms to comply.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
Metatron Technology Consulting
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Karl J. Vesterling 
  To: Matt ; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion 
  Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 4:07 AM
  Subject: E911 Legislation (was) Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoiPSupply Dot Com



  E911 legislation has no business being applied to VOIP...  
  That gets the FCC involved, and is a foot in the door to legislating the internet itself.

  Nope...  I'll have none of that...  

  Get a junk cell phone and keep it handy if you want E911 service.  It doesn't even have to be active on anyones network.  Any cell phone, whether active or inactive is able to place an E911 call.


  At 08:02 AM 6/2/2005, you wrote:

    Yes.. you should have spent 16 hours browsing the small print and
    Terms of Service (if it took you that long).  Good Grief man!  You
    must be one of those people sueing Vonage because their 9-1-1 setup
    procedure isn't clear!
  [snip]


  Best Regards, 
  Karl J. Vesterling
  E-Mail: kjv at ken-ton.com



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