[78516] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US slaps fine on company blocking VoIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Mon Mar 7 05:13:50 2005
In-Reply-To: <4229510E.8040600@ehsco.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:15:03 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > and your phone number has to be local to your location.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Thanks for proving my point.
And who says that a location needs to have only a single
phone number. Many VoIP providers will sell you extra
vanity numbers anywhere in the USA or a number of other
countries:
http://www.telphin.com/numbers.php
http://sipphone.com/virtual/
These are redirected to your phone in the same way that
a personal 800 number gets redirected. A telephone number
is rather more like a domain name than an IP address.
So if the E-911 VoIP service requires that you have
a base phone number that is within your E-911 region
that doesn't seem like a problem to me since you can
have any number of virtual phone numbers in addition
to the base number.
--Michael Dillon
