Vonage goes live without real 911 capabilities, and in trying to figure it out later, they can't get what they want for nothing, so it's SBC's fault. Please.
They want to work "through industry-standards-setting organizations" and criticize Vonage for not working within the process.
Well, I've got news for everybody. The telco "industry-standards-setting" process is even more cumbersome and dilatory than the process for setting new 802.11 standards--largely because the ILECs are incapable of realizing that they no longer have the right to control everything.
When there is a difference, the ILECs routinely reject any sort of "majority" approach and demand "consensus", which they deny has been achieved unless the standard favors the ILEC.
Claiming that Vonage should wait for these standards is just SBC saying "we don't want to face your competition for at least another two or three years."
calvoiper -- VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies!
