| Steve & Susan 2005-05-28, 10:54 pm |
| On Sun, 22 May 2005 12:04:04 GMT, kurtullman@yahoo.com (Kurt Ullman)
wrote:
> And it would also seem MUCH quicker in an emergency to use the
>land line. I would also be willing to bet that there is a "regular"
>land line (if not a few cell phones) in most of the Internet cafes.
>the VoIP 911 problem would be mainly in home and (and possibly
>businesses).
While it may be much quicker and has obvious benefits, our stats show
that people use whatever they are conditioned to use. Our system stats
indicate about 57% of system-wide 9-1-1 access being wireless (VoIP is
pointed to a POTS line, so we can't even collect numbers on that). The
primary PSAP actually is closer to 65% wireless (there are eight PSAPs
in the system). I've heard from other 9-1-1 coordinators that their
wireline calls account for only about 32% of total system usage now.
One of the 9-1-1 coordinators who has a greater disposable income than
mine brought a new toy to a meeting: a PDA with a wi-fi card and a
VoIP telephony application. There are some people out there who want
to make wi-fi VoIP a cellular competitive system.
Steve
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