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VoIP 911 Emergency Service: Problems and Fixes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the phones-came-before-emergency-call-systems dept.

13.7BillionYears writes "Slate explores the technical hurdles VoIP faces in providing 911 emergency services and points to some technical, legislative and commercial workarounds that just might work. Some are the author's own ideas, some are already in the works. Until this little doozie gets solved, VoIP will have to suffer plenty of FUD of the credible variety and may never spark a real revolution. Of course you can always keep analog POTS (plain old telephone service) around like floppies--just for emergencies--but it'll cost you and tie you down in a number of ways."

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  1. <sarcasm> Orwellian preconditions ... by foobsr · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... will void the need for a 911 Emergency Service.

    Everything will be under control.</sarcasm>

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    TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
  2. Re:Know your location? by Zooze · · Score: 2, Funny
    If you can't speak, well, it's probably too late for you anyway

    Yeah, we might as well just kill the people who can't speak... and then we'll kill all the blind people... and then everybody in wheelchairs... and then the Jews, Blacks, Chinese, Mexicans....

    Those non-speaking people really have a lot of nerve. Who gave them the right to own phones? Before you know it, they'll even be on /. What a bunch of uppity fuckers.