oilman614
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What did we do before 911 came out?
We all dialed the local numbers to your Police/ Fire / Ambulance.
That is why phone manufacturers made phones with 1 button presets to program your local numbers.
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Programming, and the most extremely litigious society on the face of the earth. People in this country are programmed not to think, but to dial 911 in case of emergency. The theme is, should poor Harriet Housewife's infant have a medical emergency, Harriett panics and dials 911 from her VoIP set, but EMS can't pinpoint her location and the inevitable series of lawsuits erupts.
Hence the rush. |
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said by oilman614  :What did we do before 911 came out? Millions of people DIED!
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said by oilman614 :What did we do before 911 came out? We all dialed the local numbers to your Police/ Fire / Ambulance. That is why phone manufacturers made phones with 1 button presets to program your local numbers. What's the rush? You're right, we should go back to the good ole days when we didn't have E911. My dad had a heart attack and couldn't speak and he said the operator just kept saying, "Sir, you have to tell me your address before I can send help." The local numbers usually don't have the types of systems that can locate and dispatch help.
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said by pnh102 :said by oilman614 :What did we do before 911 came out? Millions of people DIED! Correction... Millions of DUMB people DIED! 
I remember being a little kid and having the firemen and cops coming to school to teach us the numbers that we needed to know before 911 existed out here... And I remember my folks showing me the numbers to call for fire, police and ambulance. What's scary is that I still know one of the two numbers I had to remember all these years later.
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said by FAQFixer :You're right, we should go back to the good ole days when we didn't have E911. But we already have a system in place that does 911 correctly 100% of the time... Plain Old Telephone Service! If 911 is that important, then stick with the cheapest POTS you can get and save the VoIP for all the expensive long distance and intra-LATA calls.
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| said by pnh102 :said by FAQFixer :You're right, we should go back to the good ole days when we didn't have E911. But we already have a system in place that does 911 correctly 100% of the time... Plain Old Telephone Service! If 911 is that important, then stick with the cheapest POTS you can get and save the VoIP for all the expensive long distance and intra-LATA calls. I think you failed to notice it was sarcasm. The story about my dad's heart attack was to show you how the good ole days weren't that great. |
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