Duane wrote: > Dave Bour wrote: >> Wondered how long this would take. Going to be a lot of noise over this one. > > The family had failed to update the VoIP provider, there was already a > big stink over the incident in the US that involved VoIP because the > call wouldn't connect to emergency services, but the provider had no way > to know that the family had moved in this case. > > The only way round this would be some kind of location based system > similar to those deployed for mobile phones. Although in Australia at > one stage there was talk about emergency services verifying the address > when the person called if the line was flagged as a VoIP service, but > I'm not sure where things are at exactly.
I should read the article first next time ;) Seems the company is blaming the parents for not updating the address for the 911 database but the parents thought updating their billing address in 2006 was sufficient. Seems said company is to blame for not asking or updating the billing address is the new residential address, although no one can say for certain the outcome would have been any different. -- Best regards, Duane http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Global Communication for the 21st Century "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
