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Re: Vonage SUED over not clearly informing customers re 911 service lacking

  • From: Jay R. Ashworth
  • Date: Thu Mar 24 17:42:05 2005

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:02:26PM -0600, Network.Security wrote:
> I read on a Vonage customer forum about "testing" your 911 service with
> them, I don't know that I'd advocate that as the PSAPs will likely be
> ticked.  But again, it emphasizes a point about collaboration between
> Vonage and the areas it supports to insure customer safety.

Nope.  I asked a local 911 dispatcher.  They said that yes, as long as
you immediately identify your call as a non-emergency test call, and
don't do it too often, they don't object.

Cheers,
-- jra
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