Excellent point. I guess I'm asking about anytime 911 and voip make CNN in a really bad way. On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Justin B Newman<justin at ejtown.org> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:09 AM, David Hiers<hiersd at gmail.com> wrote:
How many people have died because of mis-configured 911 VOIP services?
I know of two such cases, one in FL and one in Calgary.
Do you mean to say, "How many people have died following a failed attempt to dial 911 via VoIP"?
I would suggest that it is rare for medical professionals to say with certainty that had a call been "correctly" terminated to a 911 operator that a person's life *would* have been saved. ?Only that there would have been an increased likelihood of the caller surviving.
Semantics, yes. ?But ... a worthy distinction in my opinion.
Yours,
-jbn