Another cell phone accident to a parked vehicle

[Monica Lewinsky]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

You have to pay to call 911 in the US? Here in Germany all emergency numbers are for free.

Slight misunderstanding due to my poor choice of words. The call is free - of course. I was speaking in terms of millions of dollars spent on the 9-1-1 equipment. Our state is broke, the voters in my county voted DOWN replacing the 20+ year old equipment.

Problem:
If your phone service is VOIP based, you come up on the the fire/police screen as "UN-KWOWN". They have no clue who and where you are calling from. Example: the people that fall the Comcast marketing gimmick, cable TV, Internet, and telphone service become un-kwown at the 9-1-1 centers. So instead of improving response times, they are regressing ... gradually.