[78490] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US slaps fine on company blocking VoIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Sat Mar 5 01:27:26 2005
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:26:22 -0500
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20050305050222.16951.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3/5/2005 12:02 AM, John Levine wrote:
>>>Vonage has fought tooth and nail to *not* be a regulated entity.
>>
>>It's too early in the technology life-cycle for them to be treated that
>>way. I mean, you can get a phone number anywhere the service provider has
>>a pop, and if you want to feed that into existing 911 service systems
>>you've got a lot of mapping issues to deal with, probably to the point
>>where it's not economically feasible
>
> Packet8 offers E-911 on their VoIP product right now, for a $1.50/mo
> surcharge which is not out of line with the POTS E-911 charge. You
> have to tell them where you live,
> and your phone number has to be local to your location.
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Thanks for proving my point.
Regulating as-is behavior is not feasible, ergo regulation means loss of
features or overhauled network(s), which is a bit unreasonable given where
we are in the lifecycle.
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
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