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Vonage Maybe we'll get 911 by law soon....
"Fourth, we have a real challenge with
Maybe we'll get 911 by law soon....
"Fourth, we have a real challenge with Voip. A recent tragedy in Texas reminds us all that the stakes are very high. Press reports indicate that a family in Houston was attacked by a burglar last month. The father and mother were shot. While the attacker was still in the house, their daughter tried to dial 9-1-1 on their Voip line and a recording informed her that 9-1-1 was not available. We are still gathering information on exactly what happened and on the circumstances of 9-1-1's unavailability. Let me be the first to say that I do not have a ready answer for the Voip 911 question. Certainly we need to understand that Voip doesn’t use the same technology as the circuit-switched network and this should be reflected in our rules. And we need to figure out when one player offers an application and another is a service provider. But let me also say this. This problem has to be fixed. And it has to be fixed soon. It is simply unacceptable that a child can pick up a phone and dial 9-1-1 to get the police in an emergency and instead she gets a recording saying that 9-1-1 is not available. A 9-1-1 call can be the single most important call that child, or any of us, ever makes. So it is our solemn and pressing obligation to make sure that it is available and that it works. I know you are working on this, and I want to commend NENA and the VON Coalition for the serious effort they are making to get us what the country needs. It is a partnership that can make a real difference. Keep up the good work; keep us posted; and let me know, please, how you think I can help the effort."
Read The Full Thread: Yesterday the FCC Commissioner said this...
• Maybe the FCC will start charging us 911 fees via our monthly Vonage bills...
• Would be fine by me.... 911 is well worth it, especially if you have kids.
• Agreed. As long as dialing 9-1-1 works I wouldn't mind paying the same fee as I paid
• I also agree. That was one of the biggest concerns for my family.
• I tested my 911 service about a two weeks ago just to satisfy my curiosity after
• Yeah, the problem is that VOIP users shouldn't be getting charged the fee in the
• I would pay a fee for 911 service too.
Maybe the VoIP services could somehow require
• How is the e911 working in Rhode Island?? Is that system really working?
Since
• I disagree. It's just one more thing for the government to meddle with. I didn't
Trek234 posted "Maybe we'll get 911 by law soon....
"Fourth, we have a real challenge with" on 03/01/2005 |
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