Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors )

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:25:27AM -0800, David Barak wrote:
> > most american PBX's don't have 911 as a dialplan. 
> > you have to dial 9-911.
>
> We work on different PBXes.  The ones on which I work
> are specifically configured to respond to 911 OR 9-911
> to avoid a problem.  Would YOU want to have been the
> person who didn't enable one of those options, and
> thus delayed response time?

Would *you* want to be the person who got a dressing down from the
local fire chief because several of your phones had skip-py 1 keys,
people trying to dial 9-1-800-555-1212 kept dialling 911 instead?

There are *many* possible failure modes involving 911:

http://www.911dispatch.com/911_file/911_misdials.html

And for background:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-1-1

It's not as simple as it looks, off topic though it probably is.

Cheers,
-- jr 'learning opportunity' a
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