{"id":94,"date":"2005-08-24T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/?p=94"},"modified":"2005-08-24T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T21:31:00","slug":"no-phone-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/no-phone-for-you","title":{"rendered":"NO phone for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their infinite wisdom, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050824\/ap_on_hi_te\/internet_phones_e911\" target=\"_blank\">the FCC has decreed<\/a> that all VoIP providers must terminate service to customers that haven&#8217;t responded with their acknowledgement of the inherent limitations of making 911 calls through their VoIP phone service.<\/p>\n<p>To put it simply: Due to <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.fcc.gov\/cgb\/consumerfacts\/voip911.html\" target=\"_blank\">how VoIP works<\/a>, it&#8217;s difficult to connect customers to local 911 call centers. So in an emergency, 911 might not be as quick and easy (or at all) as it is with standard phone service. The FCC wants to make sure that all customers understand this issue. So if customers do not acknowledge that they understand this, the VoIP provider must terminate their service.<\/p>\n<p>How is this supposed to make sense? What happens if one of these customers needs to call the police or the fire department? Not only will they not be able to dial (a limited) 911, but they won&#8217;t be able to call anybody else! This just seems like government policy stepping on it&#8217;s own toes to me.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">This entry brought to you by Contessa, the common sense critter.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their infinite wisdom, the FCC has decreed that all VoIP providers must terminate service to customers that haven&#8217;t responded with their acknowledgement of the inherent limitations of making 911 calls through their VoIP phone service. To put it simply: Due to how VoIP works, it&#8217;s difficult to connect customers to local 911 call centers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}