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- Voice Over IP A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8...
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- 911 Modernization and Public Safety Act would tie VoIP to 911 backbone
- A bill winding through the U.S. Congress would go along way to making E911 calls over VoIP lines more efficient. I am referring to the 911 Modernization and Public Safety Act. If passed and signed into law, VoIP providers would be able to obtain direct access to...
- Blog posts 2007-10-13
- 911 over VoIP can mean life-or-death errors
- 911 over VoIP can mean life-or-death errorsNot such a big deal.If the consumer is not willing to RT*M, then he/she is not ready to adopt VOIP. Don't adopt a technology until you understand it. If the knuckle-draggers avoid VOIP, then the companies will be forced [i]by the marketplace[/i]...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
- Why don't you use VoIP?
- Why don't you use VoIP?A couple of reasons*Price. I get all the long distance I want with my wireless phone. Adding VOIP would be an extra expense, especially considering DSL is the only available broadband where I live and it requires a POTS line which I want anyway.*911. There...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-06
- Until this happens, VoIP E911 will be an illusion
- Until this happens, VoIP E911 will be an illusionclouds connected to clouds?This is all a great idea, but the L3 slide is just clouds touching clouds. I realize that lightning works this way, but this is a little short on the specifics of who owns what, and who pays to...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
- Until this happens, VoIP E911 will be an illusion
- At CTIA I attended a presentation on next-generation E911 for mobile VoIP.Two of the presenters were Tim Lorello, SVP, Chief Marketing Officer, TeleCommunication Systems, Inc., and William Clay, Vice President E-911 Product Development at Level 3 Communications.In one of Bill Clay's slides shown at the top of this post,...
- Blog posts 2006-04-10
- Level 3 E 9-1-1 Exec Describes The Challenges
- At the CTIA VoIP Mobility Conference late yesterday, I listened to Level 3 Communications vice president of E-911 Product Development William Clay recite some impediments to optimal 9-1-1 service- both VoIP and over standard phone lines.Among the issues E-911 infrastructure issues Clay mentioned that need solving include:No support for mobile...
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- VoIP E911 challenges: and the Master Street Address Guide
- VoIP E911 challenges: and the Master Street Address Guide"Master Street Address Guide" is wrongThe post says:[i]"Start with something called the Master Street Address Guide, which is supposed to store a 911 dialer's location info."[/i]The database that stores the 911 dialers location information is *NOT* the Master Street Address Guide MSAG....
- Discussion threads 2006-03-10
- VoIP E911 challenges: and the Master Street Address Guide
- If you think that VoIP E911 is "here," and that most of the problems have been solved, you really need to read my colleague Anne Broache's piece entitled Net phone providers describe E911 obstacles.On the scene this week at a suburban D.C. conference sponsored by the National Emergency Number Association,...
- Blog posts 2006-03-08
- Concerned about VoIP E911? Here's a list of all PSAPs in the U.S.
- The recent imperative by VoIP service providers to make their E911 service compatible with the U.S.' nearly 8,000 Public Safety Answering Points has generated a new focus on what these PSAPs are and what they do.One might think that PSAP territories totally overlap jurisdictional city and county boundaries. No,...
- Blog posts 2006-02-23
- PSAP manager on VoIP E911: "When your child is choking..."
- PSAP manager on VoIP E911: "When your child is choking..."fed needs to regulate or at least standardize voip networksE911 has to be a priority to the public interest. And believe it or not, our government is suppossed to act in the puplic interest. And I don't mean "act"...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-15
- PSAP manager on VoIP E911: "When your child is choking..."
- One of the more ominous TalkBacks I've received to my Vonage IPO filing describes E911 chamber of horrors post was from a reader named Kenathena.This reader identified her(?) self as a PSAP Public Safety Answering Point manager. PSAPs are often the front line of E911 calls from VoIP and...
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- Only this solution will solve the VoIP E911 mess
- Only this solution will solve the VoIP E911 messGPS solution for VOIP E911 messThere is already a product on the market for this mess. I met the developer by accident; he is a retired Air Force Radio Tech and also a grad of U of I Champaign. His black box...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-30
- Net phone operators reach E911 deadline
- Net phone operators reach E911 deadlineFCC a bunch of idiots, once againThis E911 red herring is pointless and stupid regulation. For instance, I moved from California to Canada a couple months ago. I kept my Vonage VOIP line so that I can have a US phone number. ...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-29
- Only this solution will solve the VoIP E911 mess
- Today is the day that VoIP service providers who are unable to offer E911 service in specific regions must stop signing up new customers in those areas.I expect a whole bunch of compliance reports to arrive at the FCC today. And, I would not be utterly shocked if the FCC...
- Blog posts 2005-11-29
- Alternate Senate bill eases up on Nomadic VoIP
- I don't have any quarrel with the good intentions of FCC edicts that E-911 access over nomadic VoIP be required, and quickly at that. This is more of a well-intentioned public spirited mandate there are such things than another big-government bureaucratic edict, but still, I have problems with it.Nomadic E911...
- Blog posts 2005-10-27
- USAToday, you are wrong: CallVantage Heartbeat does *not* solve VoIP E911
- USAToday, you are wrong: CallVantage Heartbeat does *not* solve VoIP E911Maybe we should have Home VOIP & Mobile VOIP rules.I have VOIP, and it's set up for 911, at home. However, if in the future, I get a VOIP device for traveling, and want to hook up at my local...
- Discussion threads 2005-10-11
- USAToday, you are wrong: CallVantage Heartbeat does *not* solve VoIP E911
- The AT&T CallVantage p.r. machine is in high gear about a new AT&T CallVantage nomadic E911 solution called Heartbeat. Today's USAToday even has a feature story about it. AT&T Solves VoIPs 911 Issue, the article is slugged.Sorry, USAToday, but you are wrong. This is a step in the right direction,...
- Blog posts 2005-10-11
- I weigh in on Ted's 10 VoIP predictions
- Some months back, fellow VoIP blogger Ted Wallingford posted a list of his top ten predictions for the VoIP industry.He now revisits this list with a progress/lack of progress report on each.Let's visit some of Ted's points, see what he says, then read what I have to say.10. You’ll give...
- Blog posts 2005-10-10
- Another FCC E911 pushback: wise leniency or butt-cover backpedal?
- Well, the Federal Communications Commission once again has rolled back their deadline mandating that VoIP service providers interrrupt service for those customers who have not yet gotten back to them with an acknowledgement they understand the current limitations of VoIP E911.The previous deadline had been today."After considering the reports detailing...
- Blog posts 2005-09-28
- FCC extends E911 deadline for VoIP users
- FCC extends E911 deadline for VoIP usersRe: FCC extends E911 deadline for VoIP usersWho called 9-1-1 to get the FCC to push the deadline? ;-)E911 DeadlineNot only are VoIP being cut off, but if you have "On Star" in your vehicle as of January 2006, if your vehicle...
- Discussion threads 2005-08-26
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