On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 23:41:10 +0000 (UTC), "Steven J. Sobol"
<sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:

>In article <3oni13h6id91rdrhmi5f2pojmjjeruq3qi@4ax.com>, The Ghost of General Lee wrote:
>
>>>I see Vonage, trying to justify the $25/month before the first phone call,
>>>always bragging about 911 service. So what? It's no big deal, at all.
>>
>> Hmm, sounds like we have a Skype apologist here.
>
>Now, in defense of Larry (how strange that sounds!) - if he's always
>somewhere where he knows the emergency phone numbers, he's not going
>to need 911. Fact is, however, many people do.
>
>I don't necessarily need 911 at home -- I know Victorville's police
>and fire number is 760/241-2911 (notice the last three digits!) - but
>even then, I don't know if they'd get my address automatically. I'm
>not sure how it works if you call the local emergency number directly,
>instead of the 911 PSAP.

Been there, done that, with many agencies. If they have CID, they get
that, but no more. The PSAP has the equipment that polls the phone
records for the address (called ALI, or Automatic Location
Identification). They *can* call the PSAP and get the info manually
(of course, it adds quite a bit to response times), but there's no
such animal for cellular E911.

>Personally, with children in the house, there's no way in hell I'd
>want to be without 911...

Nor I. Larry just needed to be called out for his apologist attitude
WRT Skype when he constantly calls people here "apologists" for VZW.