911Advocate
@nortelnetworks.com
| reply to navalpatel
Re: PFT
I am not going to get into the battle of if Vonage notified you or not. Clearly their web page makes the required legal statements.
One point that is being lost is E911 and 911 and HOW a call is routed. The E911 system is a telco based 'cloud'. You enter in the cloud by dialing 911 from your phone, your caller ID is looked at, and an intelligent routing decisions made to terminate your call at the proper PSAP.
Right now, Vonage and other VoIP carriers DO NOT have access to that E911 'cloud'. What they are forced to do is call forward your call to the public non-emergency number at the local police station.
This may not be your E911 PSAP, your call is not treated as a 911 call, nor does the PSAP dispatcher get the E911 screen pops with location information that they would get with a REAL 911 call.
So there are several issues here, and 911 registration is only PART of the problem. Even if you follow all of the VoIP providers rules, you are most likely not getting TRUE E911 service.
Some carrier have made arrangements to connect to certain E911 infrastructures in certain states. But few if any, can offer the same service nation wide.
Just wanted to set a few facts straight about how E911 actually works. I'll stay out of the political arena on who said what and when. |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY | said by 911Advocate:
your caller ID is looked at Actually that would be your ANI, not caller ID. Two different animals.
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I support the right to keep and arm bears. |
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011Advocate
@optonline.net
| I used the term Caller ID for simplicity sake. And for the record, E911 uses ALI not ANI  Another animal all together from CLID and ANI, or PS-ALI if the subscriber paid for that servie.
Oh... the plot and complexity thickens. |
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