US slaps fine on company blocking VoIP

Sun Mar 6 05:29:50 UTC 2005

On 2005-03-05-18:43:38, Nathan Allen Stratton <nathan at robotics.net> wrote:
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> In fact because of the lame way current providers are doing 911
> (hading calls to PSAP administration lines) BroadVoice does not
> offer 911 at all yet. I would rather NOT offer it and tell users to
> have a way to call 911 via CELL or PSTN then to have them count on
> me getting them to a PSAP with the current options.

I'd like extend a public "thank you" for that.  It's a real shame more
residential providers don't follow suit, given the brokenness (and
false sense of security) of their existing implementations.

-a