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| reply to jimk
Re: Sipgate US down? You raise good points, thanks for a cogent post. 
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As I posted fairly recently on this forum, the CRTC specifically told the company called Link2VoIP that [all] of their active paid Canadian customers must have the 911 service EVEN IF they were only using inbound (DID) service. The company bitterly and publicly protested this. They ended up a few weeks later deciding to shut down.
Link2Voip also had tried to convince the CRTC that they should be exempt because they were incorporated in Panama, not Canada. The CRTC apparently didn't buy that.
There is a technical issue in Canada that a company might be ok with plain 911 rather than e911.
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Regarding GoogleVoice, they do [not] provide dial-tone service. In other words, you can't pick up a phone and make an outbound call on GV unless you've used some harrypottering like Obi. And GV is careful to [not] promote or endorse that.
Likewise, an inbound call on GV can't arrive at your phone without something like the Obi, or without being sent through a 3rd party DID.
So GoogleVoice is quite safe, no one would consider them an interconnected provider under the FCC or CRTC meanings.
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Skype is a puzzle, but:
1) Skype hid behind being incorporated in Luxembourg.
2) Skype is now owned by Microsoft, so they can hide behind Microsoft's lawyer, and Skype itself is STILL officially incorporated in Luxembourg.
3) Nevertheless, Skype has been forced to offer some limited type of emergency calling service in Australia and the UK. |
