I believe Jay is correct here, though it is correctness of dubious quality :P They way this was always explained to me is: If it looks like a phone and and a casual user could have a reasonable expectation of it behaving as such then it MUST be able to dial 911. This means: IF you have a Cisco IP phone on your desktop with no DID but outbound only service, then it must be able to dial 911 since most people will have a reasonable expectation of it behaving like any POTS line. If you configure a soft phone on your PC with the same outbound only account, it is completely compliant because it doesn't have the same expectation. Furthermore, if you are simply a provider of sip trunking services, and you offer distinct inbound and outbound products, I dont believe you have to offer 911 since it is not "interconnected voip" but if you offer a bi-directional product then you do because it is "interconnected voip". Fairly basic guidelines IMO. Again IANAL, YMMV, harmful if swallowed etc etc. -Ryan On 01/18/2013 04:22 PM, Nathan Anderson wrote:
On Friday, January 18, 2013 4:12 PM, Jay Hennigan <> wrote:
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I like this. Now we merely need the lawyers to sign off. :-)