For Immediate Release: Dallas, Texas Tuesday June
14th, 2005

VoIP E911 PROBLEM SOLVED JUST IN TIME TO MEET THE FCC
ORDER

On May 19, 2005, the Federal Communications Commission
took steps to protect consumers by requiring that
certain providers of Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) phone service supply enhanced 911 (E911)
emergency calling capabilities to their customers as a
mandatory feature of the service.  Interconnected VoIP
providers must comply with these requirements, and
submit to the Commission a letter detailing such
compliance, no later than 120 days after the effective
date of the Order.  Finally, the Commission stated its
intention to adopt an advanced E911 solution that
includes a method for determining the customer’s
location without the customer having to self report
this information.

A group in Dallas, Texas has developed a breakthrough
solution to the FCC’s Order that is in testing and
recently received a notice of issuance from the United
States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for patent
application number 20040140928.  This is the only
patent known to have ever been issued by the USPTO
covering 911 in the VoIP market and solves the biggest
problem in providing VoIP 911 services.  This problem
centers around the mobile or nomadic user whose
location is very difficult to pinpoint for emergency
dispatch.

The patent covers a system, a method, an apparatus,
and software that handles an emergency IP request
using an IP enabled device having Global Positioning
System (GPS) capability.  If emergency criteria are
satisfied, global positioning data is obtained using
the GPS capability and the emergency IP request is
sent, local emergency services data based on the
global positioning data is obtained, a call center
station based on the local emergency services data is
dialed, and an emergency call from the IP enabled
device to the call center station is passed. 

In a June, 2005 article in Billing World and OSS Today
– Regulatory Watch: VoIP Providers must Provide E911
Function, Even for Vacationing Subs, it is pointed out
that VoIP providers that fail to meet the FCC’s
requirements within 120 days, “won’t be allowed to
provide service in the United States.”  The article
further attributes comments to executives at both
Level 3 Communications and Intrado stating that GPS
technology attached to VoIP phones is a solution to
this problem, and that, “a number of smart people in
the industry are trying to find ways to integrate GPS
or some other unique identifier so location can be
determined in real time, without the customer having
to notify the VoIP provider through a phone call or
Web portal.”

FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin stated that a VoIP 911
solution was “a matter of life and death.”  This group
has the most cost effective, most precise and the only
patented VoIP 911 solution.

For additional information, please email:
ip911resource@yahoo.com