Cod
join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC | reply to oliphant
Re: I'm no Vonage fan...
how is their 911 service a joke? I pick up my phone, dial 9 1 1 and I'm connected to my town response center....Maybe I am in the minority, but works flawlessly for me. |
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
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join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA
3 edits | Before I cancelled, mine called the front office of the local Sheriff's office (not even the county headquarters or anything)...problem was, it was an electronic auto attendant which told you "if you're having an emergency or are witnessing a crime in progress hang up and dial 9-1-1"...otherwise you are left on hold. And if it's after business hours you get that message to call 9-1-1 or you have the choice of leaving a voicemail with various departments there.
I think to call that 9-1-1 is a joke. Personally I think there ought to be federal standards of what a service has to contain before you can call it 9-1-1...and Vonage doesn't cut the mustard.
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Captain Obvious
|  Although I keep a regular POTS line (with the absolute cheapest metered rate Verizon offers at ~$14/mo) just for 911 and cable outages, the bottom line is that you don't HAVE to use 911. Crap, I was alive before there WAS a 911 service. (and I'm not that old)
Phone books still have direct numbers to emergency services, such as ambulance, fire, and police printed in them. The important thing is to know what your services can, and can't, do - and communicate that to everyone that needs to know.
For me, at least, it is still cheaper to have cable internet ($42/mo), Vonage ($25/mo) and Verizon metered telephone ($14/mo). Primarily because I would have gotten the Internet connection anyway - but also because I was paying ~$100/mo in long distance charges before. |
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
Premium
join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA
| I tried that. I was going to program the speed dial of all my phones with Police, Fire and Paramedics, but my Verizon phone book (and others) don't list emergency numbers other than 9-1-1. Departments here don't have emergency numbers any more...they all use 9-1-1. Only their front office (desk clerk) and direct numbers for some divisions within the department were listed.
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