[blu] broadband phones?

[Anthony Gabrielson]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, William Ricker wrote:

> If you have only the strength to dial but not speak or crawl to the curb, Enh.911 will save your butt. This is very important in home invasions and domestic abuse as well as stroke victims. If your VOIP vendor can route 911 to the right 911 center  with correct address - I've heard a few can -  maybe they'll learn to ignore the funny areacode on the callid and not dismiss your emergency as a prqank or fluke. But the house to cell adapters are just scary right now.

Okay - fair enough, I'm young guy and I didn't think about that.

> 
> > the one time I need to call 911 when I saw bad wreck they knew 
> > exactly where I was.  
> 
> Interesting. Where/when/how?  Untill recently and still most places, they only got the tower adress - unless it's a tiny cell in a highway canyon, that's hardly unique.

I was on RT 1 north just past the movie theater mid summer.  

> 
> > The only valid gripe I see is power, in which 
> > emergency generators can be put in place for the tower.  
> 
> And same issue with VOIP at both home and provider and BB carrier!! 
>  
> > POTS needs to go - its old, overpriced, and requires to much overhead to 
> > maintain it.
> 
> I dont disagree re POTS flaws, but conversion of a locked in technology is a slow process.
> 
> To replace POTS with something as reliable will raise the cost of the alternative. VOIP and cellular both require more expensive instruments, sometimes bundled with service contracts. How do you propose to finaqnce conversion of the universal service homes to wireless or BB rom POTS?  

Change isn't an over night thing.  As people begin to pick up cell phones, 
where we are at know, the providers improve infrastructure.  As that 
infrastructure occurs people will drop there POTS, thats where we are 
going as early adopters have dropped there POTS.  As this process 
continues forward more and more people will drop there phones.  I can only 
think of several people off the top of my head that have POTS.  Why is 
that?  Well, as this process has migrated forward and the cell 
infrastructure has improved people don't see the need for yet another 
bill.  The technology may not be 100% ready, but as this process continues 
the technology will be developed. 

VoIP currently works through a box, or a computer.  Address info can be 
encoded into the packet - why not?  There are so many ways to solve this 
problem, it will be solved in a cost effective way.  For power issues a 
cell phone battery can provide a decent amount of juice for an out going 
call.  Thinking about it, all of the phones I had when I stopped using 
POTS required being plugged in anyway...

There is nothing here that can't be solved with a little bit of thought.  
The phone company can require an open standard to work with there 
equipment and go from there.  It doesn't have to be like the old days.

Anthony