[Shotimes] Re: OT Vonage

[Rick Glass]

You are correct Ron, no service on a landline means no dial tone, no dial 
tone = no connection........I doubt that will ever change.

The only time a non-active phone works for 911 is in the case of a cell 
phone.

Rick Glass
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: OT Vonage


> That would mean that you would still have to havve a dial tone. Is this 
> now the case? I haven't moved in a few years, but no service always was 
> equal to a dead line.
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> Ron Porter
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> Ben Bentley <sho32@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Even if you have no paid phone service in your house you are still 
> supposed to have 911 dial out capability as long as the house is wired to 
> have a telephone. With the enhanced 911 service it will show the address 
> from where the call is being placed, but it will not list who's name the 
> phone is in since it's obviously not a paid service. If you want to use 
> Vonage simply have a phone or two in the house that is still wired into 
> the landline service. Just one of the things I've learned in my last year 
> or so of working in a 911 PSAP.
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> Ben
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