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| Verizon customers in the White Pigeon exchange can make local calls to White Pigeon, Constantine, Sturgis, and Union. Of those exchanges, VoicePulse can offer numbers in the Sturgis and Union exchanges.
People can dial into Sturgis numbers as a local call from these ILEC exchanges: Burr Oak, Centreville, Colon, Constantine, Sturgis, and White Pigeon
People can dial into Union numbers as a local call from these ILEC exchanges: Constantine, Edwardsburg, Union, Vandalia, White Pigeon, and Elkhart, Indiana.
I'm hoping that VoicePulse will have the whole e911 situation straightened out soon (if it isn't already), because they do have the best coverage of rural areas in Michigan, but I fear they may have encountered something that caused an unforeseen delay, and I'm not sure if everything's been resolved yet.
I'm sure they'd like to get back to selling their service also (if they aren't already doing so), and if anyone has been reading my blog you know that I think it's ridiculous that the FCC seems to be expecting the impossible of VoIP companies (particularly the smaller ones), while at the same time looking the other way when many cell phone companies are unable to meet the FCC's unrealistic demands. I truly believe that there is political favoritism (and possibly even outright corruption) at work here, and if I were the owner of a VoIP company, I would really resent it that the cell phone companies (which are much larger, have more resources at their disposal, and have had far longer to develop the technology) are not forced to stop signing up customers when they cannot meet FCC demands, but the VoIP companies are. You can say all you want about what VoicePulse or any other VoIP company should have done, but when all is said and done I really wish there were some way that the FCC could be held to account for its unfair and highly discriminatory enforcement, which is depriving potential VoIP customers of all the service options that would otherwise be available to them. |
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