[blu] Re: [blu] Re: VoIP quality -- 911 reliability

[bbj at innismir.net (Ben Jackson)]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> On Sun, 22 May 2005 23:47:27 -0400
> Ben Jackson <bbj at innismir.net> wrote:
>
> > Which, quite frankly, is sad. These VoIP companies merely provide an
> > interface to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network). They do not
> > provided telephone service. Sadly, customers and their marketing
> > deparments think otherwise.
> Their marketing departments are selling a service and their customers
> expect them to deliver on what marketing is selling.

Technically, not really. The problem is in the fact that they are calling
themselves a 'phone company' and people automatically assume "Phone
Company" = Hard Line phone = E911. Silly.

In reality, that's not true. Cell phones didn't provide E911 for over
a decade, and still don't provide E911 very well, so why can't VoIP
get the same treatment?

I'm curious what would have happened to the cell phone industry if the FCC
came down like a ton of bricks on them at the same point in their
lifetime.

					~Ben

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