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Digital Packets
• • May
19, 2005 / VOIP technology, which breaks conversations into
digital packets and sends them like e-mail over high-speed
lines, makes calls significantly cheaper. In
regards to digital packets, the sorting sensors used by
Google and the rest of the major browsers, now search
through millions of informative webpages, that can
automatically update time-lines and convert the digetal
information into "text/video/audio packets" that, in turn,
is luring customers at a brisk clip. This digial packet
system is more fully described in TVI' "Chancy's Follow the
Money Handbook, (2003)", says Mark. "t's all about "brain
finger printing, remembering where you found it". About 4
million people nationwide now use VOIP, and that
number is expected to grow to 17 million by
2008.
• • Some VOIP companies offer enhanced 911
service, which provides name, location and phone numbers to
emergency dispatchers. But others offer limited service,
routing calls to administrative offices open only during the
day. Others offer no 911 service.
• • Federal regulators Thursday ordered
companies selling Internet-type phone service to guarantee
that customers can connect to 911, responding to criticism
and signaling that the technology is coming of
age.
• • The four members of the Federal
Communications Commission put on hold their hands-off
approach to voice over Internet protocol technology, saying
that life-threatening situations make 911 an essential part
of all phone service.
• • Their vote followed testimony from
three couples, including one whose infant died and another
who were shot by intruders. They described their failed
efforts to call for emergency help through the VOIP service
they had with Vonage Holdings
Corp.
• • "Anyone who dials 911 has a reasonable
expectation that he or she will be connected to an emergency
operator," said FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin. "This
expectation exists whether that person is dialing 911 from a
traditional wire-line phone, a wireless phone or a VOIP
phone."
• • In addition, many cannot offer the
service when customers take VOIP phones across the country
or around the world, or when they use out-of-area numbers,
which allows a Long Beach customer, say, to have a New York
City phone number.
• • Under the FCC order, VOIP companies
that are connected to the conventional phone network would
have four months to offer enhanced 911 service in all
situations. And the nation's major land-line carriers that
control the emergency calling system would have to make
access to it available at reasonable
prices.
• • Even before Thursday's vote, Vonage
felt the consequences. It is being sued by Texas and
Connecticut over its alleged failure to provide proper
notice about its 911 offering.
• • The FCC decision could raise the price
of VOIP service. Some providers, like SunRocket Inc., have
factored 911 calling into their prices; others like 8x8
Inc., which operates as Packet8, are charging $1 or $2 a
month for the service.
• • Vonage, the nation's largest VOIP
company with 700,000 customers, expects to absorb the added
cost, said spokeswoman Brooke
Schulz.
• • The commission's action was lauded by
consumer groups and supported by VOIP companies and the
nation's four major regional network owners, including SBC
Communications Inc., California's dominant local phone
company.
• • "This action is long overdue," said
Janee Briesemeister, senior policy analyst for Consumers
Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine. "We have long
voiced concern that VOIP is marketed as a substitute phone
service without being capable of, or required to provide,
equivalent service."
• • VOIP providers, welcoming access to the
911 network, also worry about the double-edged sword effect.
Used to no oversight under former FCC Chairman Michael K.
Powell, who pushed deregulation, the companies don't want
the new order to usher in an era of
regulation.
• • "While it is important to protect
consumers, it is equally important to enable nascent
technologies that can change the telecom landscape to evolve
without undue burden," said Rich Tehrani, president of
Technology Marketing Corp. of Norwalk, Conn., which focuses
on Internet telephony.
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