ISDN4BSD removal
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-stable-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Oct 8 18:55:15 UTC 2010
Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD at insightbb.com> writes:
> On Friday 08 October 2010 12:22:40 pm Dimitry Andric wrote:
>> On 2010-10-08 18:12, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>> > Another thing about VoIP calls: have they solved the "emergency call
>> > needs a location" problem? Here (again: in Norway) they are still
>> > working out how to solve this: if you call emergency services (police,
>> > fire department, etc.) from yout VoIP number; how do the emergency
>> > center locate you?
>>
>> Ehm, you tell them? You have them on the phone. :)
>
> Um, could be a kid that dialed the phone, or someone may have lost
> consciousness.
>
> How can this still be a problem? Congres mandated that all phones have GPS,
> didn't they?
No. Not even cell phones have to have GPS. For Internet-based
telephony, the regulatory requirement involves customer cooperation,
not technology.
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