Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service

Tue Jul 19 07:17:41 UTC 2005

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 at senie.com> wrote:

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