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Emergency Services for VOIP
Posted by Rod in Old-blog-archives at 7:36 pm on Saturday, 9 April 2005

VOIP is starting to run into one of the expected issues in the US.  How to integrate into emergency (911) services.

Raising alarms about 911 over Net phones

The nub of the problem is that NetPhones are not fixed to one address.

As mobiles transmit real time caller location, maybe they will become the 911 device and leave VOIP to be a low cost or lesser service.

Or maybe carriers just get relegated to local access and emergency services.  Emergency services becomes the reason for that $39 per month.

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