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- 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
- Burning down the house: Slashdotters debate if Vonage's slow E911 response hurtUse the cell phoneto call 911. Or use both!
- Tags: Slashdotters, E911, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-24
- 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
- Vonage IPO filing describes E911 chamber of horrors*Not* a big dealWe have vonage service in my house. If the only issue w/ E911 is I have make sure my current address info is up-to-date, then I really don't see a problem here...In addition, we have 2 cell phones. I expect...
- Tags: GPS, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, IPO, CALL QUALITY, Vonage Holdings Corp., E911, phone
- Discussion threads 2006-02-10
- 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
- Vonage says it's E911 compliant
- Vonage says it's E911 compliantE911Come on are we supposed to have to coddle everyone who doesn't know how to read the Terms of Service, the web media concerning that issue, or how to operate the website they signed up on?vonageI am glad that vonage is committed......its made my decision to...
- Tags: E911, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-14
- 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
- VoIP providers to customers: tell us you understand E911 is limited for nowI got a call too, but i refuse to acknowledge it.Be interesting to see if they kick me off or not. I dont use it as my primary because i have a cell phone. I...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Federal government, Vonage Holdings Corp., VoIP, VoIP company, FCC, E911
- Discussion threads 2005-07-21
- 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
- What AT&T and Verizon's new E-911 claims downplay - or don't say
- What AT&T and Verizon's new E-911 claims downplay - or don't sayAre the companies your babysitter?Dude, the customer has to take some responsibility for his own safety! If you want to be on the cutting edge of technology and be a cheap bastard with VoIP, there are some...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., E911, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-07-12
- Vonage CEO: E911 deployment challenges steep
- Vonage CEO: E911 deployment challenges steeprural customersAnswering Points where calls are routed up to emergency dispatchers; establishing efficient ways to hook up rural customers who aren't even on basic E911 without too much financial strain for each deployment; and establishing relationships with rural phone companies, most of which are strangers...
- Tags: E911, Vonage Holdings Corp., deployment challenge
- Discussion threads 2005-06-12
- 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
- A CYA exercise? Vonage blasts E911 signup alert to subscribersThose aren't newI signed up for Vonage in early March of 2005 and they sent me that same email the day after I signed up for the service. It was the same as you described. People did not begin...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., CYA, e-mail, E911
- Discussion threads 2005-06-05
- 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
- Vonage's Citron sure has a point about E911 access standardsE911 vs 911As much as having a page to click on to know that the customer has acknowledged that he is opting out of 911 service, this doesn't seem to do anything for Vonage adapting their system to be compatible with...
- Tags: E911, Vonage Holdings Corp., Citron
- Discussion threads 2005-05-13
- 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
- Connecticut's suit against Vonage is less than baseless
- Connecticut's suit against Vonage is less than baselessIt's a smokescreen - ask 'who benefits?'The Connecticut suit, where no one has been injured by their own choice to ignore the repeated communications from Vonage, benefits only two parties: the established Telcos, and the Connecticut Department of Revenue which has taxing authority...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp., E911, telecommunications company, Richard Blumenthal, SBC
- Discussion threads 2005-05-04
- 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
- Exclusive: SBC comments on the Vonage E-911 issueI suspect the truth lies someplace in the middle ...From my prior experience with SBC prior to moving out of their little kingdon of control, I have very limited faith in their statements.I still find it interesting that other companies are not having...
- Tags: Telephony, Taxes, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, E911, SBC, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-03-31
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