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Originally Posted by GoFlambe

So I don't think it's solely a case of "Stupid people" since they might not have known exactly how the 911 service with their provider worked. They might have saw 911 support and thought it worked like normal 911 (and some VoIP providers do work that way, I think), but honestly, after reading that FAQ entry, one might make assumptions that everything should work as advertised.

Sorry but I think that exemplifies the stupidity here... we are not talking about a situation where someone who believed they'd never need 911, as most people hope they won't day to day, and so took the perceived small risk and switched to a VOIP phone system. We are talking about parents that had a son with a history of health problems going with a 3rd party to route their 911 calls. These are people that knew that the reality of their situation was they would very likely need 911 some day, maybe on many different days.

That’s got dumbass written all over it. All I personally would need to see was that my 911 service would not work the same, how ever that was different if my child’s LIFE was at stake, I think I'd opt out of the early adopters program and wait for the VOIP wrinkles to get ironed out and stay with a tried and true method of getting help immediately when I need it.