VoIP 911 Deadline Approaches – Providers Rise to Challenge

10:31 pm on August 22, 2005 | Category: VoIP

American VoIP providers are scrambling to meet with federal regulations forcing them to offer the same access to 911 emergency services as traditional landline phones do by November 28th of this year. Despite the quickly approaching deadline, providers of VoIP services claim that they will be able to rise to the challenge, and meet the regulations in time.

Although there is no doubt that this ruling is a challenge, VoIP companies are actually doing quite a good job of rising to the occasion. Most providers already allow emergency services to pinpoint a 911 caller’s exact location when they are at home, and soon enough, they will also support the locating of users who are calling from outside their primary residence.

In the long term, this ruling is just a minor bump along the road. VoIP definitely isn’t going to go away, and every challenge that the industry faces is just another opportunity for internet telephony providers to innovate, and prove the value of their services.

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