On Thu, 5 May 2005, Paul wrote: > We really need to convince the regulators that mandatory 911 support for > voip is senseless. Wireless 911 is based on the tower you are using at > the time, not the wireless company you have an account with. Real 911 > support for voip would place a burden on the ISP to provide IP to > physical address mapping. Even worse, the voip provider might have to > refuse device registration when such mapping is not available in order > to comply with the regulations. You take your ata or softphone to a > hotel whose ISP does not provide the mapping and you can't make calls. > That dog won't hunt. All of the above makes sense for mobile providers. Sort of. For fixed line providers, you have no excuses.
For mobile providers, you *must* give an option to the customer to provide their location in case they have emergency. Face it - people don't move *all that often* and all the talk about "hunting for the location" is just creating excuses to not to provide emergency service in the most likely case - when the customer at his stationary location. I don't see what's wrong with FCC requiring that. -alex _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
