| Steve Sobol 2005-05-28, 4:55 pm |
| Larry W4CSC wrote:
quote:
>
> They didn't refuse to call 911. The phone had NO SERVICE on its PRL.
But Larry, the phones are supposed to ignore the PRL if you make a call to
911. The last (and only) time I made a call from a Verizon phone to 911, in
an area of Lake County, Ohio where VZW's signal is almost nonexistent but
the phone will insist on trying to acquire a VZW carrier anyhow, the phone
(a Nokia 3285) went into emergency mode and made the call in analog on... I
assume... Cingular or Alltel. As I've mentioned before, Sprint has a tower
two minutes from my house, which is where I was, but they don't have analog
so I know it wasn't their network.
Actually, it *might* have been a Verizon analog signal, now that I think
about it...
quote:
> Alltel's 00156 system isn't listed on 50295, at all, so it doesn't exist as
> far as this phone was concerned....
Does not being listed in the PRL shut you out? I thought only NEG entries in
the PRL shut you out of using a certain network.
quote:
> I think we may have a misconception of the PRLs power over this emergency
> call. It would be most interesting to hear from the carriers and phone
> manufacturers that, in fact, simply dialing 911 makes the phone ignore the
> PRL, entirely, going on a frantic search across its receiver/technology for
> any signal from anywhere. My observation is it does not.
Well, my personal experience, having had to make an actual call to 911 from
a VZW phone, is different, but that call was made three years ago (roughly).
So things might have changed since then.
quote:
> Another fine example of FCC not forcing its will on the corporations.
*banging head against wall*
How are you going to sit there and piss and moan about the FCC if you didn't
even file a complaint? Go file a complaint... if nothing improves, THEN you
have lots of justification for being angry.
This situation reminds me of people who had trouble with their ISP
connection at the provider where I used to work. Some of them would call
immediately and get the problem fixed. Others waited two weeks and then
called, furious that their Internet connection was down for two weeks. Of
course, any good ISP (including the one where I worked) monitors their
network and attempts to be proactive about fixing things, but there is NO
way we could catch every problem before it happened. Likewise, with hundreds
of SIDs across the country, it's going to be impossible for the FCC to
monitor each and every one for compliance.
I agree with you that Big Business has the FCC in its pockets. But you have
to at least *try* to get them to make things right.
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