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Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...
From: Adi Linden <adil () adis on ca>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:02:24 -0600
When that happens, if VOIP access to 911/112 is still problematic, we can expect standards for it to be mandated by governments - and they WILL do it - there is nothing politicians hate more than an avoidable fatality where the blame can be attributed to their failure to act.
So what is legislation going to do short of banning VoIP applications that connect to the PSTN? So who's going to stand trial if fatalities occur because the 911 operator was unreachable? The ISP for having insufficient bandwidth, the janitor for sharing the DSL line, the phone owner for dropping legacy PSTN service...? Who would in their right mind rely on MSN Messenger for 911 access? Today residential VoIP service offered by Vonage or like companies is nothing more or less than your instant messenging gizmo. Perhaps it is more useful but by no means more reliable. Adi
Current thread:
- More on Vonage service disruptions... Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Mar 02)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Daniel Senie (Mar 02)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Adi Linden (Mar 02)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Robert M. Enger (Mar 02)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Michael . Dillon (Mar 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: More on Vonage service disruptions... Church, Chuck (Mar 02)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Patrick Muldoon (Mar 02)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... JC Dill (Mar 02)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Thor Lancelot Simon (Mar 03)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Richard Cox (Mar 03)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Adi Linden (Mar 03)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Niels Bakker (Mar 03)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Patrick Muldoon (Mar 02)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Daniel Senie (Mar 02)
- RE: More on Vonage service disruptions... Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Mar 02)
- RE: More on Vonage service disruptions... Church, Chuck (Mar 02)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... John Levine (Mar 02)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Michael . Dillon (Mar 03)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... John Levine (Mar 02)
- RE: More on Vonage service disruptions... kwallace (Mar 02)
- RE: More on Vonage service disruptions... Jeff Rosowski (Mar 02)
- RE: More on Vonage service disruptions... andrew2 (Mar 02)
- RE: More on Vonage service disruptions... Daniel Senie (Mar 02)
- Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Niels Bakker (Mar 03)