[geeks] the end of the internet as we know it.

[sammy ominsky]

On 04/08/2009, at 19:00, der Mouse wrote:

> We are required, by CRTC regulation, to provide access to 911 services
> on all phones we support in Canada.  We are not permitted to turn it
> off even on direct customer request;

Yup.  We don't provide service to Canadians in Canada because we are  
not able to comply with the CRTC regulations, though we do supply  
Canadian DIDs to customers in the US and Israel.


>  It might be permitted if we had reason to think
> the particular line in question would never be used in Canada, but no
> such case has come up - we have only a very few lines routinely used
> outside Canada, and none of them have requested 911 disabling.


One of our major target markets is US expatriates, so a large  
percentage of our customer base has no E911.

--sambo