Re: vonage 911 service

Guys,
VOIP's 9-1-1 does not operate like landline emergency calls. VOIP
emergency calls may have to be routed through a regional or state
emergency center. Even if they have complied with FCC orders and have
moved that number to a reporting location as now required VOIP still
can't acces the actual 9-1-1 network and must depend on a city giving
them an alternate 7 or 10 digit number to call. If the city isn't set
up for this that number could be just the number to the general
operator. There is always the possibiity that the VOIP provider
answers 9-1-1 calls, find out what type of emergency it was, and
forwards the call to whatever number they have for that city. With
VOIP, there are so many things going on in the mix that you never
really know which was the cause of a problem.

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