Vonage finally claimed yesterday about its full compliance with 911 emergencey calling at par with traditional phone service.



FCC in its mandate has clearly outlined that all Internet telephony operators have to get enhanced 911(E911) installed in their service in all their service areas. E911 requires that caller’s location and number has to be automatically provided by the company to PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point). VoIP firms were barred to accept any new customers or market their services in areas which were not having E911.



This will now allow Vonage to markets its service to new customers and also accept them in every geographic location. Vonage in its earlier statement has claimed to have provided enhanced 911 service to its 90% of its customer. Its has also blamed local phone operatiors to be slow in providing them the necessary infrastructure for their(Vonage) 911 services.



“Vonage shares a common goal with the FCC, Congress, public safety officials and regulators: to deploy E911 service for all subscribers as soon as possible,” said Jeffrey A. Citron, Vonage’s Chairman and CEO. “We are dedicating every resource at our command toward turning up a national E911 system - not only are we spending over $50 million, but we’re working with public safety to create a framework to hasten this national deployment and remove any local roadblocks we’ve encountered



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