[78432] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Thu Mar 3 21:17:44 2005
Date: 4 Mar 2005 02:16:55 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20050303.160347.7335.25396@webmail15.lax.untd.com>
Cc: fergdawg@netzero.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>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"...
I was surprised to see on Packet8's web site that they now offer E911
in a lot of places. You have to have a local phone number and pay an
extra $1.50/mo. They remind you that if your power goes out, your
phone still won't work, but if you can call 911, it'll be a real 911
call.
This still has little to do with port blocking, but a lot to do with
the whole question of what level of service people are paying for vs.
what level they think they are paying for.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
