Concerns about VoIP as a consumer’s only 911 option have been floating around for awhile now. Apparently the FCC wants to do something about it; they’ve issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) requesting comments on reliability and location accuracy of E911 services. They cite their primary objective as follows: ‘to advance policies, rules and initiatives that support the efficient and reliable transmission of meaningful automatic location information for wireless cell phone users and users of interconnected VoIP service to Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) to better ensure rapid emergency response and save lives’.