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 calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | reply to David
Re: I don't think said by David:.... The public added fuel to the fire, the bells did not have to do a damn thing. Except sit back and watch. If people depended on e911 availability I would think (as a consumer) that would be the first thing I would expect to be working with landline service. Well, sitting back and watching the fire is near criminal--especially when you've been obstructing the efforts of others to install sprinklers (i.e., connect to the existing E-9-1-1 systems.) I'm sure the Bells are having a good laugh over the deaths involved, thinking that their own obstructionism had nothing to do with it.
As for what you "would think" about something new, you remind me of the sleazy lawyers who argue to juries that boats are unsafe because they don't have brakes like cars--since they have a steering wheel and a dashboard, they must be just like a car, right? It's not like we would expect people to understand that new things are sometimes different?
People who think we must "idiot proof" every new technology don't realize that if we only allow new technology that's "idiot proof", we will only get the new technology that idiots could conceive, develop, and implement.
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| Well do remember I am a tech that posts here, but from a consumer viewpoint (I did watch a vonage commercial on my tv the other day the "doing something stupid commercials") the commercials on tv made no mention to me (and probably 75% to 90% of the normal untechnical public ) about e911 being impacted if I switch to vonage. Now keep in mind the same public will be thinking "Ok I have a broadband line, why don't I get vonage?" Then disaster strikes like it did for the 2 incidents I point above and they look for someone to blame. Who's fault was it really? The VoIP's fault? the bells fault? and the bells fault for what? not making something work? for the VoIP providers not stating that e911 might not work? I can't fathom to imagine it being the bells fault for something the VoIP providers did not consider in the initial long run, for that I blame them, and solely them for their lack of responsibility. That just proved they put the bottom line above public saftey and now it is catching them in the shorts.
As for thinking making things idiot proof.. I agree, but to the same extent if you try, we just invent a better idiot.
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | ...and I don't doubt that some customers have been misled about the impact on their 9-1-1. However, I think the answer is in requiring proper disclosure, not in more regulation that limits customer options and raises prices.
And while we may differ on the "obstructionism" (or not) that the VOIP players have encountered, you have to admit that today's FCC effort to make the VOIP network work like (i.e., look like and cost like) the LEC network will hurt VOIP more than a reasonable disclosure only requirement would have.
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