Congress pushes 911 mandate on VoIP

Congress is joining the effort to force Internet telephone companies to link up to the emergency 911 network.

A 10-page measure, which has been introduced in both the Senate and House of Representatives, also would permit state and local governments to levy taxes on voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) companies in exchange for providing access to 911 operators.

The bill was made public just hours before a Federal Communications Commission meeting devoted to Internet 911 regulations, at which the FCC set a late September deadline by which Net phone carriers would have to provide 911 service equivalent to that available over landline or cell phones.

"The few seconds it takes someone to realize that their broadband connection cannot reach 911 can be the difference between life and death, and we cannot waste that time during an emergency," said Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., a sponsor of the bill.

In the last few months, regulators and legislators alike have become transfixed by horror stories like that of a Florida woman who claims that Vonage's poor 911 service played a role in her daughter's death. VoIP services can connect to 911, but often at a lower priority and without communicating location-identifying information.

Texas' attorney general has sued Vonage over its 911 service, an online petition has popped up, and FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein even quoted the Talmud on Thursday when saying that 911 regulations must apply to VoIP. The FCC's vote to impose a 120-day deadline on VoIP providers to implement 911 service was unanimous.

The federal legislation also says that 911 emergency services must provide "nondiscriminatory" access to VoIP providers, and for the time being, a VoIP provider that doesn't work properly with 911 "shall provide a clear" notice to customers. Only VoIP providers that link up to the public telephone network would be covered.

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FCC SCAM getting ready to roll out!

FCC SCAM are getting ready to roll out!

Several months ago when VoIP and Taxes was in question I predicted that the 911 emergency helpline would become the loophole.
OH MY was I right and this just indicate that the politician are reading these articles send in by so many of us.
Unfortunately not everyone are reading all this stuff and we haven't heard the last word yet.

The telephone carriers throughout this country has been asleep for several years watching the VoIP industry spending BILLIONS of dollars improving the technology and while they were asleep AT&T made a move during the last Olympic games. First they announced that they were pooling out of the residential market and immediately everyone in the telecommunication industry started to celebrate, their were even happy rumors they the old big boy was going out of business. WOW were they all wrong, AT&T launched a campaign during the Olympic games costing them more than 25 million dollars that they were joining the VoIP market and then what happen.

Every crybaby came out of their cradle inclusive the state of Florida claiming that they would be loosing billions of dollars in taxes if they could not tax the VoIP service.
The former chairman of the FCC Mr. Michael Powel said "keep the fingers off the innovation of VoIP or you will kill the progress of technology". Well he has only been gone a few weeks and the entire house are coming down resulting in a major setback for innovation and all this due to dirty greed by the politicians. If we could fire them we should or at least rethink who we should vote for at the next election.
Bottom line is this, as long as we have people that does not understand technology and innovation we will end up continue falling behind the rest of the world so let's just go ahead keep poring money in the wrong direction so a few can have their 911 preference.
Make sure you tell the telephone technician on your block not to touch the wires even if they are broken, you might need to dial 911.
What did we do before 911 was around?

As I said several months ago, as long as we are dealing with literacy we will stay where we are.

If you really want VoIP their is only one place to get it and that is from http://www.CallOnMyDime.com not only is it FREE but here is another twist... IT IS OFFSHORE... Try to tax that baby.

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FCC SCAM getting ready to roll out!

FCC SCAM are getting ready to roll out!

Several months ago when VoIP and Taxes was in question I predicted that the 911 emergency helpline would become the loophole.
OH MY was I right and this just indicate that the politician are reading these articles send in by so many of us.
Unfortunately not everyone are reading all this stuff and we haven't heard the last word yet.

The telephone carriers throughout this country has been asleep for several years watching the VoIP industry spending BILLIONS of dollars improving the technology and while they were asleep AT&T made a move during the last Olympic games. First they announced that they were pooling out of the residential market and immediately everyone in the telecommunication industry started to celebrate, their were even happy rumors they the old big boy was going out of business. WOW were they all wrong, AT&T launched a campaign during the Olympic games costing them more than 25 million dollars that they were joining the VoIP market and then what happen.

Every crybaby came out of their cradle inclusive the state of Florida claiming that they would be loosing billions of dollars in taxes if they could not tax the VoIP service.
The former chairman of the FCC Mr. Michael Powel said "keep the fingers off the innovation of VoIP or you will kill the progress of technology". Well he has only been gone a few weeks and the entire house are coming down resulting in a major setback for innovation and all this due to dirty greed by the politicians. If we could fire them we should or at least rethink who we should vote for at the next election.
Bottom line is this, as long as we have people that does not understand technology and innovation we will end up continue falling behind the rest of the world so let's just go ahead keep poring money in the wrong direction so a few can have their 911 preference.
Make sure you tell the telephone technician on your block not to touch the wires even if they are broken, you might need to dial 911.
What did we do before 911 was around?

As I said several months ago, as long as we are dealing with literacy we will stay where we are.

If you really want VoIP their is only one place to get it and that is from http://www.CallOnMyDime.com not only is it FREE but here is another twist... IT IS OFFSHORE... Try to tax that baby.