[78893] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage SUED over not clearly informing customers re 911 service lacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Mar 24 17:41:24 2005
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:38:34 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <DDC7F6127D700C4496571A94C242AA7901DAA04B@EMAILSTORE13.target.com>; from "Network.Security" <Network.Security@target.com> on Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:02:26PM -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:02:26PM -0600, Network.Security wrote:
> I read on a Vonage customer forum about "testing" your 911 service with
> them, I don't know that I'd advocate that as the PSAPs will likely be
> ticked. But again, it emphasizes a point about collaboration between
> Vonage and the areas it supports to insure customer safety.
Nope. I asked a local 911 dispatcher. They said that yes, as long as
you immediately identify your call as a non-emergency test call, and
don't do it too often, they don't object.
Cheers,
-- jra
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