WorkinClsDog
VoIP Engineer
Premium,VIP
join:2003-01-01
Piscataway, NJ
1 edit | reply to sokhapkin
Re: [Other] Patmedia Digital phone
Also - for those of you who have other VoIP providers... is Patmedia's handling of 911 any different from VonAge or any of the others?
Personally, the 911 issue makes me VERY skeptical of VoIP service as a primary phone - having a non-emergency person or third party hand-off 911 type calls is a bit frightening. This has happened with numerous VoIP providers and gets glossed over by many marketing departments as a "non-issue" in hyping their services.
I'd encourage some of the Patmedia customers looking at this service to ask some really tough questions on just who will be answering on the other end when they dial 911 via Patmedia's VoIP and if it's an actual emergency official - or a service which is handing off the emergency info.
Keep in mind too, that if you change your address and don't notify your VoIP provider - you're pretty much out of luck.
Some things to read and think about --
»www.patmedia.net/patriot/Digital···doc.html
»www.internetnews.com/infra/artic···/3501991
That second article details a very scary actual incident where VonAge's 911 (or lack thereof) caused real problems.
Not trying to be negative here, but all the details should be out there - hopefully this issue was addressed in their VoIP planning stages.
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WCD
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