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Texas Attorney General Sues Vonage over 911
bigtallmofo writes "Vonage VoIP customers and readers of many media reports should be aware that Vonage's support for 911 service is less than ideal. Now the Attorney General of the State of Texas is suing Vonage for failing to make clear the limitations of their 911 service. The issue was brought to the AG's attention after a 17-year old Houston girl was unable to reach police after dialing 911 when both of her parents were shot by an intruder."
"Unlike traditional phone technology, VoIP converts the sound of a voice into small packets of data -- about 50 packets for every second of conversation -- scatters them across the Internet, and then reassembles them into sound on the other end of a call."
No thanks. I'm just a country doctor. I'm not having my phone call molecules scattered across the galaxy, er, internet.
Mr. T pitied this fool on 27 July 1992.
Although less stylish... perhaps a touch tone might be better in the case of emergency:
"Oh my god, a murderer!..."
*spin* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click*
*spin* *click*
*spin* *click*
"Hello, this is 911... hello?......."
"Uh sorry, you've got the wrong number, this is 9-1...2..."
Why didn't AOL warn me that 911 could not be reached via instant message. AOL Instant Messager is flawed and they should be warning their customer with six warnings at login and I should receive a card in the mail each month explaining that I should only use my landline telephone when contact AOL.
Lash out, little bloostater! Lash out!
They're so CUTE when they're acting like immature little nothings. :)
I can just hear all the 9-1-1 operators bitching later today. WTF is slashdot, and why is everyone from there calling to "test" their service?
> Well not now as in today, we don't want to slashdot 911
I didn't realize 100 million nerds lived in my county.
>What did people do before there was a 911 system?
Died more often?