I would agree on that, my voip setup at my house took several faxes back and forth to the provider to get it working right. Then it took a week for the 911 dispatch center to actually see my address as correct when I placed test calls.
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:22 AM To: Mike Lyon Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: VoIP E911 - was: Telecom Collapse? With one provider in Canada at least, the E911 address to phone number registration is a large bureaucratic manual process, likely involving fax machines. Meanwhile, the ILEC presumably has an address in a database for the loop... So, I wonder about more direct access to PSAPs by CLEC, anywhere from dark fibre to database API? On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 23:10 -0800, Mike Lyon wrote: > That makes two of us... > > Anyways, for residential VOIP, where are we these days with E911? Are > providers like Vonage and such providing reliable E911 when people > call 911? That is one of the major problems I see with the residential > realm going with VOIP offerings... > > -Mike -- Jeremy Jackson Coplanar Networks (519)489-4903 http://www.coplanar.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
