[asterisk-users] Can I roll my own E911?

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Mike Trest - On Travel wrote:
> At 01:17 PM 4/22/2008, you wrote:
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>> My question would be - is this actually compliant with the FCC E911
>> regulations applicable to VoIP providers?
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> IMHO and EXPERIENCE before FCC, this arrangement is NOT compliant
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> Reason:  multiple subscribers using the same number
>                neither number nor name nor location can be
>                tied to a specific subscriber at the time of use.
>
> You will need waivers on file from each client that acknowledges
> the E911 service is verbal contact only and will not have a
> fixed location or subscriber name associated with the number that
> is seen by the E911 service provider.
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Technically, no. This might not suffice. FCC 05-116 sec37 states that a 
call must be routed via ANI or pseudo-ANI via the dedicated Wireline 
E911 Network (not wireless). Now, if this were interconnected to a 
single wireline point, it MIGHT suffice, as the same section specifies 
that you can use ANI or pseudo-ANI and need only provide appropriate 
callback information for the PSAP.

Sec.38, however, states that you can accomplish this interconnection 
either indirectly through a 3rd party, directly through the Wireline 
E911 network, OR through "any other solution that allows a provider to 
offer E911 service as described above."  That 'any other solution' MIGHT 
allow you to interconnect through a single point wireless IF you can 
provide individual callback info to the PSAP.

N.