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Vonage From personal experience, landline 911 response is problematic in some areas.
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From personal experience, landline 911 response is problematic in some areas.
I called 911 for various, mostly violent crime type calls in Philadelphia. I've had either non-commital responses to abusive responses. This declined after a media firestorm over a kid being beaten to death with baseball bats on a church steps in the Foxchase section of the city while 911 operators went above and beyond the call of obnoxious and refused to forward calls until long after the kid was dead. The call tapes were aired and while the city populace was unsurprised, were outraged.
My usual call ended up with: Nevermind, I'll take care of it the way the Army trained me to. For some reason a car was immediately dispatched...
There was one law in my immediate neighborhood: Mine. Call 911 and get no response as our district is the disciplinary district. Those who were on their way out got transferred there. 911 was slightly improved after the Foxchase incident, but the police response was lackluster to non-exsistant (reported as unfounded calls while no police car was seen for a three block radius per lookouts posted to flag the officer to the appropriate location).
I shudder to think of what the place turned into since I was sent to the Middle East (where there are far less firefights)...
Read The Full Thread: Vonage Puts VoIP 911 Caller on Hold, House Burns Down
• [March 23, 2006]
Vonage Puts VoIP 911 Caller on Hold, House Burns Down
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• "Vonage claims that nearly 70 percent of its customers now have E911 access, a
• From: Vonage's Website :
At Vonage, we provide a safe and reliable means of communication
• This discussion already took place, this is not a new incident!!!!
http://www.vonage-forum.com/ft
• I wonder if the delay was between the telephone company central office in his area,
• There are some very insightful comments regarding this story up on Slashdot tonight.
Apparently
• Caca del toro! The average response time for fire/rescue in most areas is 8-10
• The fire, per the video linked from the original posting was VERY large, sufficient,
• The more tragic item we can all take from this thread is the misuse of the words "their"
• Just use your cellphone to dial 911. Problem solved. Vonage warns everyone who
SteveV posted "From personal experience, landline 911 response is problematic in some areas.
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