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The government has given VoIP providers 4 months to provide 911 service.

Where does this leave independent providers? Vonage, for its part, issued a obviously timed press release today saying it had worked out a deal with SBC and BellSouth to gain access to those telcos’ E911 facilities, which, when combined with a deal already in hand with Verizon, gives Vonage the ability to offer the mandated emergency calling service in three of the major four RBOCs’ regions.

This is clearly motivated by politics and lobbyists rather than economics.

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