Be Careful with VOIP

mid-morning on Wednesday, the 7th of May 2008 by Chad

It’s a good time to make sure you have the right address registered with your VOIP provider, such as Vonage or the cable company.

A Canadian toddler has died after a VOIP-based 911 call sent an ambulance to the wrong address.
Last week, as reported by the CBC, a Calgary family dialed 911 via their internet phone service when 18-month-old Elijah Luck went into medical distress. Their VOIP provider, Comwave, then dispatched an ambulance to the family’s former home in Mississauga, Ontario, more than twenty-five-hundred miles away.

Another case where tech moves faster than society can handle.

via The Register