April 26, 2005
911 Trial In NYC
Earlier today Verizon announced that it would be allowing Vonage access to its 911 telephone network in the New York City area. In this change of pace from their earlier stance on VoIP providers, the Baby Bell Company is planning on testing how well the partnership goes before implementing it further. The major difficulty faced by VoIP is that because the calls can be made from anywhere in the world, it is extremely hard to determine the caller's number and location. In order to counteract this, 911 must first be routed to routing centers fist so that they can be transfer to the right emergency center for their area. According to ZdNet:
"We're going to monitor this, work out all the kinks; and if it does prove successful, we'll expand it to other places," Marchand said. "We have no timetable right now for when we'll expand beyond New York City."
Read more at: Biggest Bell to hand 911 access to VoIP operators
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