The call that broke the camels back.

Posts: 233 · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject:

I have had to move a couple of times and I had good old fashioned service with Verizon before landing my Vonage account. I think Dan is right, they are all working on 911, which may be great but it may be getting too much focus. I mean, even cell phone 911 isn't precise, so IP 911 is the same right now.

As for the do not call list, I am not sure if that doesn't just help publish your number. I like the part where everybody is exempt. Here is my best do not call story. I signed up for the list. I get a call from Verizon advertising additional service (in the classic eating dinner scenario). I tell them I am on the do not call list. They tell me that since I have service with them they are exempt. I told them never to call again. They said they would enter that in the computer and not call back. One week later I get a call from Verizon again. The person says that they noticed that I do not want them to call me any more. They wanted to make sure that I really did not want calls from them. I gave an appropriate response and they haven't called back, but that may be because I am now on Vonage.

Posts: 47 · Full Forum Member Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 47

You're darn right it gets too much focus, because of what the Wall Street Journal calls

Web Phone Firms Get 911 Reprieve
By BRIAN BLACKSTONE
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
September 28, 2005; Page D3 wrote:

the FCC's May order, which required Internet phone companies to provide 911 access. Under that rule, Web phone companies would have had to disconnect service for those customers who didn't acknowledge receipt of letters.

For the first 3 years, Vonage didn't care where you lived. Now you've got to be informed about 911, and you can't even sign up a new phone number on your existing account because right away after you start the order it asks for your 911 address.
I bet the NSA, CIA, homeland security and all of those didn't like the idea of VoIP and how portable it was so they told the FCC to hurry up and make a law requiring all VoIPers to have a physical address on file (Billing and Shipping addresses weren't good enough)
*heads back to his compound and waits for the big standoff*