They probably don't, and I don't think they are covered by the same law/requirements. Also, they have far more schills(COUGH) I mean lobbyists in congress.
FLOOR could be determined by AP lists, probably. Maybe. Specific office seems impossible currently. On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 1:05 PM Alex Balashov via VoiceOps < [email protected]> wrote: > And how do the cell phone operators know what floor you’re on? > > — > Sent from mobile, with due apologies for brevity and errors. > > On Sep 27, 2021, at 3:49 PM, Carlos Alvarez <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It used to be, then the whole Ray Baum thing, and now it's not. Short > story: 911 call failed to identify the specific floor/office, person > died. Now you have to provide enough info for a first responder to reach a > person without help, which also means opening main doors if needed. > There's simply no way that a laptop will give that specificity. Will it be > sufficient to say that they are near the AP on the third floor southwest > corner? The letter of the law seems to say "no." > > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:40 PM Alex Balashov via VoiceOps < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I wonder if doing GeoIP via a commercial database like MaxMind—and we all >> know how perfect a location mechanism that is—could be construed as a >> sufficient “best effort” in this case. >> >> > On Sep 27, 2021, at 3:28 PM, Carlos Alvarez <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Ours doesn't, but that's a good idea to share with the vendor. But in >> most cases, people are using the softphone on a laptop and there's no >> native phone app, nor a GPS, nor any other location info other than >> proximate wi-fi networks. >> > >> > I can see no feasible way to meet the letter of the law, and hate to be >> depending on the good graces of a bureaucrat to know that it's an >> impossible task. >> >> -- >> Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC >> >> Tel: +1-706-510-6800 / +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) >> Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >> > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >
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