[78494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US slaps fine on company blocking VoIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Sun Mar 6 00:30:20 2005
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:29:50 -0500
From: Adam Rothschild <asr+nanog@latency.net>
To: Nathan Allen Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503051836250.2628@barney.robotics.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 2005-03-05-18:43:38, Nathan Allen Stratton <nathan@robotics.net> wrote:
[...]
> In fact because of the lame way current providers are doing 911
> (hading calls to PSAP administration lines) BroadVoice does not
> offer 911 at all yet. I would rather NOT offer it and tell users to
> have a way to call 911 via CELL or PSTN then to have them count on
> me getting them to a PSAP with the current options.
I'd like extend a public "thank you" for that. It's a real shame more
residential providers don't follow suit, given the brokenness (and
false sense of security) of their existing implementations.
-a
