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FCC Extends VoIP 911 Deadline
a.different.perspect writes "The Federal Communications Commission has extended the deadline for formal acknowledgement of the limitations of the Enhanced 911 service used by VoIP providers by 30 days, to September 28. The FCC requires that VoIP companies in the United States inform and receive acknowledgement from all their customers of the pitfalls of E911, which corresponds 911 calls made on a VoIP service with the physical address of the caller according to company records but which won't report correct information if, for example, a customer uses their VoIP phone away from their registered address. Currently 1.5 million VoIP subscribers have confirmed their acceptance of E911, but 100,000 are yet to respond and had faced the termination of their service."
Make sure they can't place a phone call to *anyone* because the 911 mechanism is affected. So now even if they can give their address verbally they can't call.
Brilliant, but there's the FCC at work.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
So, in an emergency, not only can't they call 911, they can't even ring the house next door.
(The thing about a cheap shot is that the price is always right...)
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now the only people who can get into VoIP are the rich companies or companies that made their bucket of cash already becuase of ever increasing regulations and other bullcrap from the government. this also affects our ability to get dirt cheap plans as well.
VoIP cannot be trusted for emergencies.. what if your DSL or cable modem goes out? it seems like that this should be common sense, but becuase it isn't, instead of people being smart enough to keep their landlines around for emergencies, we have this insane stuff going on now.
Actually, the McDonald's coffee case wasn't all that dumb:
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
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So let's say I'm over at my neighbors house and they suffer a heart attack. Should I stop and quizz them as to the functionality of 911 with thier service provider. Think a 5 or 6 year old child understands the implications?
911 exists for a reason, to rapidly and effectively provide emergency service.
Been watching _Airplane!_ lately?
"They bought their tickets, they knew what they were in for... I say, let 'em crash!"
"Well, good luck finding a judge that doesn't run a bestiality site."
She dialed 911 and got through just fine, she just blamed VoIP because of her tragedy and her lawyer is trying to cash in. That's the thing people forget, she dialed 911 and it worked (twice actually), again just someone trying to $$$ in on a tragedy.