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Re: FCC To Require 911 for VoIP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon May 2 14:53:57 2005

Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 14:53:30 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200505020356.XAA15086@sigma.nrk.com>; from David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com> on Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:56:50PM -0400
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On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:56:50PM -0400, David Lesher wrote:
> Alas, Gamewell fire boxes are all but dead. I don't know of any
> city still running them. Too bad, because it was a dirt-simple
> technology that Just Plain Worked. Looks like they were first
> deployed in the 1850's.

I believe that there's a chance Westwood MA might still have some; they
hadn't yanked them out yet by 1981 when I moved.

Cheers,
-- jra
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