Everest cannot be POTS for 1 simple reason. The signal comes in over rg6, to a 'network interface device' where its converted to your typical analog signalling. The difference between Everest and other PSTN terminated VoIP carriers is that Everest doesn't give you a portable hardware endpoint. They know your location, and its registered with their 911 service. With other VoIP carriers (such as Nuvio/Vonage/Skype.) You can have hardware endpoints, and/or softphones. While you may have an 816xxx number in kansas city, you can drag it to Japan without having to update your address information with the carrier. This is probably the largest hurdle in the carriers providing 911, outside of the fact that getting interconnect agreements lined out with 911/e911 carriers takes time, and money.
There is an important distinction to make when talking about VoIP, PSTN, 911 and e911. 911 does not provide address information to the 911 dispatcher. e911 is the service that provides registered addresses to the e911 dispatcher. e911 functions by doing a lookup on the originating telephone number and cross referencing with ALI/ANI.
More information can be found at http://www.fcc.gov/911/ which references 911, e911, and 'mobile-satellite' 911.
On 11/19/05, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
Every second counts with a 911 call. With POTS the 911 dispatcher can send a police unit and/or ambulance out to your home instantly. With VoIP or mobile service, if you are unable to provide location information yourself, the 911 dispatcher will have to contact this gentleman's service, wasting valuable seconds waiting for the location which needs a police unit and/or ambulance.
Until VoIP gains the same level of 911 service as POTS, I'm not going to switch to POTS. Anyone who has been through a life-threatening experience where they were unable to tell the dispatcher their location information should be able to agree with me.
Now, I have been told that Everest provides their bundled telephone service through the POTS, so they seem like a good alternative choice to SBC phone service. However, their service sounds like they aren't VoIP either.
--- Paul Taylor [email protected] wrote:
My team fields about 60+ calls a day from PSAPs that cannot get location or information from a caller who dialed 911. We assist PSAP operators by providing location of the device (VoIP or mobile).
Leo Mauler wrote:
--- Luke-Jr [email protected] wrote:
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 01:05, Leo Mauler wrote:
About the only reasons I don't switch to any
kind
of VoIP are 911 service (the 911 dispatcher
knows
where you are withregular phone service but
not
with VoIP),
If you can dial 911, why can't you say where
youare? :\
If you ever have a condition, such as a heart
attack,
which causes you to gasp for breath and be unable
to
speak, but leave you able to dial the phone (or at least punch the 911 speed-dial button), you'll
find
out just how important it is to have the 911 dispatcher know where your phone is located,
without
any input from you.
And you would probably be surprised to find out
that
when, for example, you've just accidentally cut
deeply
into your thumb with a broken light bulb, and you can't seem to stop the flow of blood, you find yourself so panicked that you temporarily forget
where
you live. Thankfully the POTS system saved me,
the
911 dispatcher knew where to send the ambulance.
I'd
hate to think what would have happened had I been
on a
VoIP system.
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