[78420] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Thu Mar 3 19:05:19 2005
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:03:47 GMT
To: adil@adis.on.ca
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
..and apparently this is happening more and more.
There was actually a story in USA Today a couple of
days ago where a family tried calling 911 on their
VoIP service during a burglary only to be told by
a recorded message that they must "dial 911 from
another phone"...
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-02-28-voip-usat_x.htm
This story accurately highlights some of the issues.
- ferg
-- Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca> wrote:
Who would in their right mind rely on MSN Messenger for
911 access? Today residential VoIP service offered by
Vonage or like companies is nothing more or less than
your instant messenging gizmo. Perhaps it is more useful
but by no means more reliable.
Adi
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg@netzero.net or
fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
