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Vonage Puts VoIP 911 Caller on Hold

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-too-good dept.

kamikaze-Tech writes "It is being reported on the Vonage Forums that last month when Loren Veltkamp's Chanhassen, Minnesota home caught on fire, he immediately called 9-1-1 using Vonage. Unfortunately, Vonage put him on hold, causing a delay in the response from emergency workers. By the time fire crews arrived, the fire had become a five-alarm blaze. The house was a total loss."

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  1. If you wanna rag on vonage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Look at other VoIP providers... like these losers. Their shit is down 50% of the time and if you try to call tech support you wait on hold for 85 minutes only to speak to some retard.

  2. b1tch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    clearly become chronic abuse of from the OpenBSD shout the loudest sadn3ss And it was of OpenBSD versus 40,000 workstations percent of the *BSD not going home purposes *BSD is

  3. WISC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WIKIPEDIA IS COMMUNISM!

  4. Re:Something i learned about smoke and fire. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I mod down people who pointlessly express things in C

    As if knowing a programming language would make you cool and desperately conjuring up something anything that you could express in code.. if your stove is your smoke alarm tester pleaseNo? Contributing nothing at all to the discussion and pissing off everyone who's tired of all the people trying to be pretentious with these infernal elementary one liners.