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."

Comments

Yeah, that makes sense

[bobalu]

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.

That'll teach 'em...

[moviepig.com]

...100,000 are yet to respond and had faced the termination of their service.

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...)