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Re: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:17:41 -0700

Well... It will be most amusing if the 911 dispatchers start a deluge
of calls and letters asking the FCC "What the hell were you idiots thinking?"
when they realize what the FCC has done here.

It's a bad rule on the FCC's part showing they don't understand the
technology and think that VOIP is just TPC/IP (The Phone Company
over Internet Protocol).  I hope it doesn't kill anyone, but, other
than that likely outcome, I gotta say it will serve them right.


Owen


--On Monday, July 18, 2005 23:07 -0400 Daniel Senie <dts () senie com> wrote:


At 09:06 PM 7/18/2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:


http://www.advancedippipeline.com/166400372

Interesting. No ability to opt-out, and no signup option. So will they
use the customer's billing address, attempt to determine location based
on IP address or some other voodoo? It'll be interesting to see if they
manage to handle vonage boxes that are connected over VPN tunnels that
terminate far from where the IP addresses "appear" to be. Also, Vonage
promotes the "take your phone service with you" idea, so there's a real
opportunity for problems. This should be interesting to watch.



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