Steven Friedrich <free...@insightbb.com> writes: > On Friday 08 October 2010 12:22:40 pm Dimitry Andric wrote: >> On 2010-10-08 18:12, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >> > Another thing about VoIP calls: have they solved the "emergency call >> > needs a location" problem? Here (again: in Norway) they are still >> > working out how to solve this: if you call emergency services (police, >> > fire department, etc.) from yout VoIP number; how do the emergency >> > center locate you? >> >> Ehm, you tell them? You have them on the phone. :) > > Um, could be a kid that dialed the phone, or someone may have lost > consciousness. > > How can this still be a problem? Congres mandated that all phones have GPS, > didn't they?
No. Not even cell phones have to have GPS. For Internet-based telephony, the regulatory requirement involves customer cooperation, not technology. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
