Re: Overheard on the scanner

Konrad Gaertner <kgaertner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> rkshullat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> 
>> The "caller ID" shown by caller ID phones uses a different mechanism
>> and a different information source than that accessible to emergency
>> services, toll-free providers and some others. They have access to the
>> unblockable (phreakers excepted) calling party number information used
>> for things like long distance billing. The biggest problem for the 911
>> system is inaccurate or incomplete data in the database that maps phone
>> numbers to addresses.
> 
> And VoIP providers who only track billing addresses, not the addresses
> of the physical connections.

Depending on where they are in the compliance process, VOIP providers
are supposed to provide accurate location information. They are, of
course, dependent on their customers to notify them when the physical
location and the billing location differ and to keep them updated as
the location changes.

	Robert
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