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Re: When You Dial 911, Can Help Find You?
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| Carey Gregory wrote:
> Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote:
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> So what? The technical issues of mapping a hotel connection to the hotel
> and room number are trivial compared to, say, determining a cell phone's
> location. Internet cafes, libraries, and all sorts of public access points
> will have the same issue. I guess they'll either have to figure it out or
> quit providing VoIP to those locations.
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> VoIP providers got into the business of providing public telephone service,
> but they didn't bother providing the whole package and you see the results.
> It's easy to undercut the other guys when you're allowed to skip the hard
> parts. Well, now they can't, and it's about time. All the FCC is saying is
> they have to quit being half-baked telephone companies and become real ones.
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Again, please don't misunderstand, I'm all for inovation, but can open,
worms everywhere.
One worm is when a VoIP client is in a hotel with in-room hi-speed
internet. Plugging in a VoIP adapter is easy enough, and in some cases
that's all that's necessary. However, in others, the hotel tenant is
required to re-certify their continued expectation of use by negotiating
a webpage that requires a code be manually typed in from a connected PC
- the code is happily provided by the front desk upon check-in, and for
subsequent days. I was in one a few weeks ago where each certification
period was only good for 12 hours before a new code was required from
the front desk. If my cert period expired in the middle of a session -
it died regardless of activity level - and curiously there was no
in-room info placard that carried a clue. VoIP clients who aren't aware
of this shouldn't expect their VoIP service to always be available under
these situations. If one is expecting to make or receive important VoIP
calls when out-of-pocket, one should be aware of these issues.
--
jer
email reply - I am not a 'ten'
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