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Re: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service

  • From: Andre Oppermann
  • Date: Wed Jul 20 05:57:04 2005 
[email protected] wrote:
I see no other way of doing this reliably than to put some kind of GPS device into the VoIP unit.
While I agree that GPS is the likely answer, I wasn't expecting the ability to work inside computer rooms and basements.
It doesn't need to work in basements, etc. It only needs to keep
a record of the last location it was at when the signal faded
away. The emergency service vehicles probably can't get any closer
than that anyway.

I wonder how that works with VoIP ATA adapters. Last time I looked
they didn't work while I was carrying it around in its box from the
dealer home.

To sum it up: Using GPS to geo-locate VoIP phones or adapters is broken
by design.

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Andre