Today’s Squawk Box was on the topic of 911 standards. Guest John Lange is the President of the Canadian Voice over IP Service Providers Association, and an active participant in the CRTC’s process for defining nomadic 911 services in Canada. He explained the issues, solutions and politics surrounding nomadic 911 service. An informative guest, we all went away having learned a ton about the in’s and out’s of providing 911 service to VoIP customers.
On the call: Jim Courtney, James Body, Jonathan Jensen, Ian Hood, Bill Volk, Kyoko Kataoka, John Lange.
Enjoy!
by alec on October 8, 2007
The CRTC has just published the results of their first round of consultations on a national Do Not Call List. The telco's have submitted a unified proposal that has many scratching their heads in disbelief. Within the CRTC's very broad definition of telemarketing, that would include most kinds of calls made for any commercial purpose, the incumbents propose that all telemarketers and their clients register and pay a fee to the do-not-call-list operator.
Recipe for another fat bureaucratic process? Absolutely.
What's their real game though? It's hard to imagine that they would willingly strangle such a profitable business.
