Well... It will be most amusing if the 911 dispatchers start a deluge of calls and letters asking the FCC "What the hell were you idiots thinking?" when they realize what the FCC has done here. It's a bad rule on the FCC's part showing they don't understand the technology and think that VOIP is just TPC/IP (The Phone Company over Internet Protocol). I hope it doesn't kill anyone, but, other than that likely outcome, I gotta say it will serve them right. Owen --On Monday, July 18, 2005 23:07 -0400 Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com> wrote:
At 09:06 PM 7/18/2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
Interesting. No ability to opt-out, and no signup option. So will they use the customer's billing address, attempt to determine location based on IP address or some other voodoo? It'll be interesting to see if they manage to handle vonage boxes that are connected over VPN tunnels that terminate far from where the IP addresses "appear" to be. Also, Vonage promotes the "take your phone service with you" idea, so there's a real opportunity for problems. This should be interesting to watch.
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