mikes60
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Re: Think about it
said by hayabusa3303  :Not only have they extended but,what about CELL phones? They where to have 911 to your location but never did it.(far as i know) Fcc lets that slip by, ooo thats right the bells can BUY there way out of it. Many cell phones do give locations, but you're comparing apples to oranges.
Cell phones are portable and never have an exact address associated them. The technology to do this is available, but expensive and difficult to implement.
Land line VOIP phones usually have an exact address associated with them. There are exceptions, such as I know are available on Vonage and probably others, where you can pick another area code for your number. If you do this, and dial 911, it's obviousy a problem unless you set it up correctly with Vonage. They may have a way of identifying where the phone is actually located. But I'm not sure of this.
While I'm not sure another extension was proper, a comparison to cell phones is not valid
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Fisamo
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| [BQUOTE=mikes60While I'm not sure another extension was proper, a comparison to cell phones is not valid
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The extension is simply for VoIP customers to acknowledge the limitations of VoIP (E- or "not E") 911 in comparison with PSTN E911. I believe a better analogy here would be for the government to demand that a company prove it has received 100% of its recalled product within 30 days of notification when a safety recall is demanded. Many people will ignore canned voicemails, bright snail mail flyers, and form emails. The more attention-grabbing, the more likely some people are to assume that the notification is a marketing gimmick and toss it. I personally think the short time lines given for VoIP E911 implementation and acknowledgement-of-limitations are not reasonable.
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mikes60
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Boynton Beach, FL | I don't really disagree with you. I was really responding to the cell phone analogy. I just didn't want to get into a discussion about the extension.
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