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>> FCC's 911 Move a Trojan Horse?
>> Critics Charge They're Engineering Death of Indie VoIP
>> Written by Karl Bode
>> Tomorrow the FCC will release an order that forces all independent
>> VOIP providers to offer 911 service within 120 days. On the surface
>> the move seems like a simple way of ensuring public safety, but
>> critics believe it's really an incumbent engineered attempt to crush
>> upstart VoIP competitors.
>> There's been a scattered number of deaths blamed on VoIP -- whether or
>> not the VoIP provider was actually culpable
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hasn't mattered to
>> some news outlets. Vonage has also been sued for "failing to inform
>> users they need to activate their 911 service" before it will work;
>> apparently this welcome screen
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customer sees was simply too mystical.
I believe the issue is that even once you activate it, you wouldn't
> get connected to real E911 services. The LECs didn't provide them
> with the proper access to the E911 infrastructure, so Vonage was
> forwarding 911 to administrative offices rather than 911 operators.
> Barry Margolin, snipped-for-privacy@alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
The LECs didn't provide them with access to the E911 infrastructure at the price they were willing to pay would be a more accurate way of stating the problem. They thought it should be free and the LECs wanted full cost pricing plus return on investment. That's called capitalism.
Tom Horne
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