E911 in San Francisco

By: News Report on August 08, 2006

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San Francisco Vonage subscribers are now equipped with Enhanced 911 (E911) -- a feature that automatically associates a physical address with the calling party's telephone number.

In addition to San Francisco, Vonage says it recently turned up E911 at an additional 400 locally run emergency call centers across the United States in less than three months -- bringing the total percentage of Vonage U.S. subscriber lines that have E911 to more than 83 percent.

In June 2005, the FCC gave Vonage -- and all Internet-based phone service companies -- 120 days to create an E911 system from scratch, and provide all of its customers, wherever they are in the United States, with E911 service. In that amount of time, Vonage worked closely with local 911 centers, also known as Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), across the country to turn on E911 for as many customers as it could. Currently Vonage continues to test and turn up new PSAPs which are VoIP-ready.

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