So if you don't want the phone you don't have to pay the $100? You should make that clear, I was going to sign up if it weren't for the set up fee. Where's the option? I don't need to spend $100 for a non-cordless phone when I already have too many.

I dont think you understand that is a VOIP phone only. Plugs directly into your router. You can also get a router that enables you to hook up all your home phones, or an adapter that plugs into your router and allows you to hook up all your home phones.

If you want the Voip Service only for BYOD "Bring your own device" service.
(Laptop, SIP phone etc....) with a single phone number, signup here at this link:

https://secure.splitinfinity.com/mod...e3_package=121

Hit me up and tell me what phone number area code/etc you want.
:-)

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Bump for a good deal :thumbsup

Use SvoIP !

Lets give this another bumpage. :thumbsup

How are you handling E911 compliance ?

Number portability issues?

Rate Center coverage?

Caller Id shows my proper name and number. Id assume it also has my correct address with it. :2 cents:

Thats not what I am talking about.

When you are providing VOIP services you have to be able to provide E911 ( Emergency Services ) coverage to the physical location ( your house, etc ) that voice services are being delivered to.

Without E911 coverage to your physical location that VOIP services are being delivered to you have NO way of getting the Ambulance, Police, Fire to your location.

Additionally, Its a requirement that E911 be provided to the end customer's location. You as the end customer CANNOT refuse this right to have E911 service. Its Law..... I deal with this daily for my VOIP biz.

Local number portability is another issue as well. You may not actually be able to get local services at certain physical addresses since the carriers that offer SIP may not be built out to the Rate Centers ( Central offices ) that your phone number terminates back to.

You may not be able to port your number as needed from carrier to carrier, or have to get an entirely new phone number if your existing number doesn't match the correct rate center that you are looking to get services in.

There are a lot of components that go into correctly setting up a customer with VOIP services for these above mentioned items. I do this all day for my existing business customers, affiliates, and direct business sales operations.

Anyone has a question, feel free to hit me anytime.

VoIP and Emergency E911 Calls

Although there are some definite advantages to using your Internet connection as your phone line, there are some disadvantage as well. Chief among these is the limited access to emergency services, which VoIP services are exempt from needing to utilize.

There are several cases pending against Vonage in which a person was unable to get through to an emergency service. In Texas, on February 2, intruders broke into the home of the John family. Peter and his wife Sosamma were shot, and their daughter Joyce tried to call 911 to no avail. Joyce ended up running next door and calling an ambulance through a normal land-line. Fortunately, the family survived to sue Vonage.

The family, as others, is suing because they believe that Vonage is using deceptive practices to sign on customers. In essence, they believe that Vonage knowingly makes it apparent that it is able to contact emergency services via 911 when that is not in fact the case. For example, Vonage asks for a subscriberhahaha8217;s address specifically for 911 services.

The charges are hardly unique. Vonage also has cases pending in other states, such as Rhode Island and Connecticut. However, Vonage has noted that working with the local phone systems in order to secure emergency services has been a problem. The Rhode Island case is notable because Rhode Island requires the service to get its own license in order to work with the local phone system. Without that license, phone service providers cannot utilize 911 services, and the license is difficult to obtain. Vonage has asked politicians to help it in trying to access such services.

Also, Vonage states twice during the application process that 911 services may not be available in most areas. By doing so, Vonage hoped to inform consumers that emergency services would not be accessible via their phones, even while asking that they provide their address for same. Also, even when emergency services are available, there is a forty-eight hour wait until services are available, creating its own obvious issues (such as an emergency during that period).

However, Vonage has brokered a deal with Verizon in order to provide E911 (enhanced 911) services. This should allows Vonage to offer emergency services, at least to a greater area. This is important because Voice over IP providers use a local broadband connection in order to access the phone lines, providing telephone service. Only 50% of all users have an actual address listed, as users take advantage of the mobility that VoIP offers; unlike landline systems, a VoIP system can be used and accessed anywhere there is a broadband connection.

An E911 service would allow subscribers to use emergency services based on their given address. However, the mobility offered by VoIP throws another loop in the issue, as a user can be in a location other than his registered location. Besides possibly directing the services to an incorrect address, there is the potential issue that a person could be calling from an area where E911 services donhahaha8217;t exist.

Vonage, as well as many other VoIP providers, are currently trying to find solutions to all of these problems. Although legislation is going to be required in some cases, such as the Rhode Island situation, and the services are going to need to adapt to the possibility of multiple locations, may be a while in coming. However, a complete solution may be a while in coming. Until then, make sure that if you are interested in a VoIP provider, check over the information provided carefully to see if you are in an area that has E911 service.

Number portability issues?

We have filed CLEC status.
Our portability issues will be the same as any other provider.
There are always limits on that, but were working, as I'm sure you are
to make the portability the smoothest it can be.

Beta tested this and it is simply amazing.

Chris, how about that phone ;)

Coin

On the 911 issue why dont they simply change over the caller id system. Make the address show up right in the caller id information, and make it encrypted and only a special caller id unit cant decrypt it. That combined with some sort of a routing system which directs the call due to the area code of the address to the proper 911 call center. *shrugs*

Thats a good Idea Sticky.
Turn the ID into a hash, then only authorized units can get the address portion of it... but all units can get the number portion.


Coin: Phone boxed up and ready to be shipped to you monday.
Look for it in the mail.

Now with regards to the E911 issues...

One important, very important thing to note: the FCC mandates something
that simply isn't technically possible, and that is:

"E911 coverage for all VoIP subscribers".

The reason this isn't feasible, or possible, is that the routing of an
'enhanced' or "E911 call is handled very differently

than a landline 9-1-1 call. That means that no one in the US is currently
meeting the intent of the FCC's regulations.

We made a very nice and juicy deal with our upstreams providers, that
makes us E911 compliant also, since we are using their US48 national
network, do to answer your question, yes - we are E911 compliant.

Me too? :bigears :Graucho :love-boob

Morning bumpage. :winkwink:

Monday bump :thumbsup :thumbsup