[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
Actually, I agree with you as long as the provider never gets penalized
or incurs costs when the subscriber fails to do his part. His part is to
provide the right information if he is stationary or opt-out of E911
service. If he opts out, he can still call 911 and talk to somebody but
he should be charged for that call since it will have to go through a
call center. I guess my worry is that the voip provider relies on the
subscriber to report his location correctly. If he fails to do that the
provider should never be penalized. The current E911 system relies
heavily on information provided by the people who actually know where
the copper wire goes. A few years ago I got a pots line at a previously
unwired address. The ILEC made calls to the town hall, the postmaster
and the chief of the volunteer fire department to confirm the address. A
voip provider can't do that. Even if they restricted me to an IP address
or subnet they would still need me to keep them updated. I can move 100
miles away but if I stay with the same dsl provider I will have the same
IP addresses.
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