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ZDNet Dictionary Definition
- E911
- (Enhanced 911) Refers to 911 emergency service on cellular and Internet telephone calls VoIP. In 1996, the FCC mandated a two-phase implementation for cellphone carriers to be completed...
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- Burning down the house: Slashdotters debate if Vonage's slow E911 response hurt
- On Slashdot, kamikaze-Tech writes, "It is being reported on the Vonage Forums that last month when Loren Veltkamp's Chanhassen, Minnesota home caught on fire, he immediately called 9-1-1 using Vonage. Unfortunately, Vonage put him on hold, causing a delay in the response from emergency workers. By the...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-23
- Report: Vonage to charge E911 cost recovery fees starting Monday
- According to some Vonage users on the independently owned Vonage Forum, they have been receiving emails from Vonage in recent days stating that Vonage plans to add additional "911 Fees and "Emergency Cost Recovery Fees."These reports say the Emergency Cost Recovery fee will be 99 cents a month for...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
- Vonage IPO filing describes E911 chamber of horrors
- I've spent a good bit of the last couple of days reading every word of the Vonage IPO filing.Keeping in mind that it is the legal and fiduciary duty of companies that file Initial Public Offering paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to articulate all risks to potential shareholders,...
- Tags: dispatcher, E&minus, 911, E911
- Blog posts 2006-02-10
- He hears gunshots, calls 911 via Vonage and hears Kenny G
- First of all, you got to love the title of the Blog this account appears on: Corey Gouker's Machine Inside The Mind (subtitle,thoughts of the convoluted).I hear ya, dude.Even though this happened three months ago, you gotta love this story.So Corey is in bed in his Redmond, Washington home sorting...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Corey Gouker, Kenny G
- Blog posts 2005-11-04
- VoIP providers to customers: tell us you understand E911 is limited for now
- The FCC is requiring VoIP service providers to obtain acknowledgement from customers that they understand the current limitations of their provider's E911 service.The requirement is to be fulfilled by July 29. That's a week from tomorrow, you know?According to an article in telephony news site Voxilla, some service providers are...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., VoIP company, VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-07-21
- Vonage CEO: E911 deployment challenges steep
- Vonage CEO Jeff Citron tells XChange magazine that he does not think VoIP service providers will be able to meet the 120-day E911 availability deadline set by the FCC last month.The September 17 deadline will be impossible to meet, Citron says, largely because of the enormity of the task. He...
- Tags: Jeff Citron, E911
- Blog posts 2005-06-09
- A CYA exercise? Vonage blasts E911 signup alert to subscribers
- I'm not only your friendly IP Telephony blogger, but I am also a paying Vonage customer.The reason I mention this is that when I came back from a camping trip earlier today, my email Inbox contained a message entitled "Activate 911 Dialing For Your Vonage Line!" (Exclamation point is theirs,...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., CYA
- Blog posts 2005-06-05
- Here's why I'm cynical about the Vonage-SBC-BellSouth deal
- On the day the FCC is widely expected to set a timetable for mandatory VoIP E911, Vonage has announced it has agreed to purchase access to elements of SBC and BellSouth's E911 networks.The big news is that this purchase includes access to technology both companies use to identify a caller's...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., VoIP, E911
- Blog posts 2005-05-19
- Vonage's Citron sure has a point about E911 access standards
- Advanced IP Pipeline's just posted a provocative interview with Vonage CEO Jeff Citron.In it, he expresses strong reservations that even if the FCC dictates that telcos offer 911 infrastructure access to VoIP providers, such uniform standards would likely not be in place all that quickly.For that reason, Citron says that...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Citron
- Blog posts 2005-05-12
- Here's how Vonage-Verizon E-911 will work
- As was expected, Vonage and Verizon have announced an agreement that will allow Vonage customers to access Verizon's Enhanced 911 network.When the system is in place by the end of this year, it does not appear at the outset that it will solve all the problems of E-911 access experienced...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., E911
- Blog posts 2005-05-04
- Exclusive: SBC comments on the Vonage E-911 issue
- In a previous post today, I surmised why SBC seems to be reluctant to work with Vonage to devise E-911 solutions.Now, SBC has their say. Spokesperson Wes Warnock just emailed me to clarify their position on this issue:"First, SBC recognizes that there are no shortcuts when it comes to public...
- Tags: SBC, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-03-31
- The real reason why SBC won't work with Vonage on E-911
- I am not surprised that SBC is declining to work with Vonage on a way to allow Vonage subscribers access to theE-911 emergency network.SBC's public reason for not being all thateager to do so is that well, Vonage hasn't figured out all the tech stuff on their end and we,...
- Tags: SBC, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-03-31
Additional Resources
- IPod shortage for the holidays?
- Now now. There's no need to panic. And we certainly don't want any shopping mall stampedes. But, just between us, word is that there may be a shortage of iPods this holiday season - not that anyone out there is trying to fuel a buying frenzy to ensure that little...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Top Web companies in October 2008
- Parent Audience, 000 Time 1. Google 128,667 1:57:26 2. Microsoft 121,819 2:35:43 3. Yahoo! 117,715 3:22:08 4. AOL LLC 88,028 3:34:41 5. News Corp. Online 78,135 1:36:45 6. eBay 60,543 1:40:32 7. InterActiveCorp 60,092 0:17:20 ...
- Tags: Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?
- Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?We have been suffering so long with poor quality voice, that we are used toit. It almost does not seem like a phone call when the quality is good. But, talking so someone with high quality voice IS really nice. Of course...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Clearwire-Sprint make it official, pave way for WiMax rollout
- A mobile WiMax service, called Clear, will soon be here, now that Clearwire and Sprint-Nextel have completed a $14.5 billion joint-venture deal that was announced in May. The new company formed by the deal, which will retain the Clearwire name, will create a 4G nationwide broadband wireless network that will...
- Tags: Clearwire Corp., Sprint Communications, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Microsoft puts more muscle behind its potential 'Kumo' search brand
- Microsoft puts more muscle behind its potential 'Kumo' search brandWell, it is a good brand name for a cheap, tired, worn out search engine.Kuhmo is a brand of cheap tires that quickly wear out. The marketing guys at Microsoft are brilliant in finding brands to fit the products.Microsoft rename Microsoft...
- Tags: Branding, Manufacturing, Microsoft Corp., brand, MS-search, Donnie, Google Inc., Balmer
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- $10.6 bln spent on Black Friday in 2008
- Sales during the day after Thanksgiving 2008 rose 3% to $10.6 bln, according to ShopperTrak RCT Corp., who tracks sales at more than 50,000 retail outlets. US shoppers spent about $10.3 bln on the day after Thanksgiving 2007. by AM
- Tags: Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, AM
- Blog posts 2008-11-29
- How open should your open source business strategy be
- How open should your open source business strategy beCreate your own network effect ...... and you can grow and shrink as necessary.There's a huge market out there of people who just want their computer to f***ing work.If you're prepared to stick a second hard drive in peoples machines and dual...
- Tags: open-source business strategy, open source, strategy
- Discussion threads 2008-11-28
- Is Apple pricing itself out of education?
- Is Apple pricing itself out of education?Apple is destinedto remain a niche 'elite' market player.o Their O/S is proprietary, o Their iPOD is proprietary,o Their iPhone is proprietary,o Their Mac is proprietary,o Their Hardware is proprietary and locked to their O/S.Apple has essentially 'locked' itself into a limited market for...
- Tags: Desktops, pricing strategy, Apple Inc., education, Microsoft Windows NT, Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-11-25
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