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FCC: VoIP Providers Must Provide 911 Services

Posted by timothy on from the insert-standard-rants dept.

acadiel writes "The Houston Chronicle is reporting that the FCC will require VoIP providers to provide 911 location services. This will mean extra $$$ that the VoIP providers will have to put out, which ultimately means extra $$$ that the consumer will have to put out. This is the first step in regulating an industry that should have been left alone..." I hope network end-points and physical location aren't going to be too tightly linked; one of the appeals of VoIP is using it from anywhere that has an adequate Internet connection.

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  1. Time to drag out this tired post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "When they came for the communists, I was silent, because I was not a communist;
    When they came for the socialists, I was silent, because I was not a socialist;
    When they came for the trade unionists, I did not protest, because I was not a trade unionist;
    When they came for the Jews, I did not protest, because I was not a Jew;
    When they came for me, there was no one left to protest on my behalf."
    Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)

  2. Re:God damned government by m0rph3us0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    English is something that has been absolutely ruined by standardization. If English were standardized I would know that you meant imbecile and not wasted my time trying to figure out what an imbasole is. Also, if you want to argue about spelling in accordance with pronunciation check dictionary.com and find out that no one except George Bush would pronounce the word "imbasole".

  3. Re:God damned government by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Uh say what? That doesn't make any sense. .

  4. DO YOU EVER POST ON-TOPIC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    really?

    and do you run on linux?