Re: Ofcom VoIP Public Forum

["Conroy, Lawrence (SMTP)" <]

Hi Folks,
  note the amusing bit - must NOT provide Emergency service, ...
i.e. one can't provide even a partial outgoing service - VoIP
users MUST be left to drown/burn/... without informing anyone,
if incoming calls to them are provided via a number in the 056x range.

I wasn't at the meeting, and looking at the discussion document
I hadn't realised that this was the intention of the Regulator.

If that *was* stated at the meeting, then does this mean that,
were it possible to connect to the emergency services centre
by dialling out to 999 via a PSTN gateway (albeit without the
emergency services knowing the correct geo-loc of the caller
*automatically*), doing so would break the rules?

Was it also stated that a non-PACS provider must NOT provide
any of the other services under the normal obligations?

Gosh!

I had thought that the original intention was that customers
should KNOW that they were getting a service that MIGHT not
provide all of the good things under the obligations *as they
are normally defined*; not that partial provision was barred.

I do so love Regulations.

all the best,
  Lawrence

On 15 Mar 2004, at 1:27 pm, Kennedy, Steve wrote:

> > Does anyone has any information (minutes, conclusion etc) of
> > the Ofcom
> > VoIP Public Forum held on 25th Feb?
> It wasn't a VoIP forum it was the "Numbering arrangements for Voice
> over Broadband services" (and there's a big difference).
>
> In summary, if you're offering VoB services Ofcom want people to use
> the 056 prefix (which is new, and similar to the corporate 055 prefix).
> Assumed to be second line service which is NOTS PATS, which means you
> must NOT provide Emergency services (or life line services), also no
> DQ services, operator services, special facilities for end-users with
> disabilities, itemised billing.
>
> The paper is on the Ofcom website (www.ofcom.org.uk) and responses to
> be in by March 24th 2004.
>
>
> Steve
>
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