cwruck
join:2004-08-13
La Crosse, WI
| Re: how many posts until... You are all misguided, research things before you jump on me about it, there is a reason I'm stressing the POTS line. Personal experience, family, friends, all trouble dialing 911 and getting connected over VOIP, and straight up FACTS.
READ: »www.voip911.gov/
READ: »www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/voip911.html
Check it: "Inform their customers of the capabilities and limitations of their VoIP 911 service."
Guess what? Out of every POTS disconnect that is going to a VOIP service, NONE of them are told about the limitations of 911 and how it is a REALITY and not just some "gimmick" by the telco. What a freakin joke, people have called back in to connect POTS service because of a situation that came up where wireless or VOIP 911 didn't work, no results, someone died, got hurt, whatever it is. It makes me really sad that when someone wants to disconnect their POTS and go to VOIP, Cable, or only wireless, and I hear kids in the background. What if there was a babysitter over, or a guest, who didn't know the address, and when 911 was called, guess what the dispatcher can't locate the person, because it's wireless or VOIP, all that time lost. It's the what if's you need to be thinking about, not "I've never needed it, why should I care now?" attitude, because you know what, the time you REALLY need it is when you don't have it. With the unreliability of 911 on anything BUT POTS, that is sickening that someone wouldn't research it more to make sure their family is safe. EVERY SINGLE CALL. THAT is how I get 99% of American's are misguided, from my own experience and facts, not just some website I found on Google. I am in the 1% that isn't misguided. Very small amount, sadly enough, it should be the other way around. You, yourself, are misguided, so why don't you search the internet or some other source some more and prove to me that your 911 on your VOIP is more reliable than a POTS line. Hence the post by the guy below about the 32 lines into a 911 call center and only 4 are for VOIP or wireless, yeah, real reliable.
I am not doing this to prove you wrong, I am doing this because it's for you, and everyone else's safety, I would never go to only a VOIP or wireless service as my primary form of emergency access.
Now, I am done arguing with you about it, have this post for breakfast, and think about it while you're going about your happy-go-lucky day. |
