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FCC to Push VoIP 911 Requirements

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-can-only-work-badly dept.

maotx writes "Originaly declared a regulation free area, VoIP is going under a new look. With complaints against it, the FCC has decided to move forward with its original plan to require VoIP providers to provide 911 support. This brings up interesting questions on how they're going to know where in the world your VoIP enabled laptop is when you call 911."

4 of 297 comments (clear)

  1. oh yea cat got my tongue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

  2. FCC and 911 by AtariAmarok · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Help! Help! Janet Jackson has had a wardrobe malfunction! on my TV!!!"

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  3. Re:GPS by NetNifty · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Cellphone broadbast towers. Just have the phone device connect to the cell towers for triangulation when making a 911 call.

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    Linux Wireless Hardware in the UK
  4. Re:Follow the ping packets! by millennial · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Excuse me, I think I'm lost.
    I thought I was in the right place, but I noticed that the first post was not a childish celebration of its being such.
    Is this Slashdot? I'm confused.
    By the way, are those ping packets you mentioned pink ping packets, pig ping packets, purple ping packets, plastic ping packets, portly ping packets, or pretentious ping packets?

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