Re: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service

[Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net>]

Perhaps -- but how does it work inside? Are we relying/requiring the user 
to put up a GPS antenna?



On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Daniel Senie wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> If you look at the webpage of telecomsystems (http://www.telecomsys.com) they 
> state that their platform is GPS based.
>
> I see no other way of doing this reliably than to put some kind of GPS device 
> into the VoIP unit.
>
> Article regarding indoor GPS and other locator service.
>
> <http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=3053>
>
> If you can put a locator into a cellphone, I see no reason why you cannot do 
> the same in a VoIP unit.

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