Ofcom firm on implementing new VoIP rules
It is confirmed that VoIP services should provide access to 999 or 112 services from 8th September, 2008, according to the statement released by Ofcom. Currently, more than three-fourths of VoIP users (78%) are not allowed to call emergency services like 999 or 112 while majority of them are even not aware of the unavailability [...]
Ofcom instructs VoIP providers to offer 999 emergency services
Ofcom, the telecom regulator, issued a consultation to the VoIP service providers asking them to provide access of the emergency services to its customers using 999. Generally all standard PSTN lines get access of emergency services through 999 while such services were offered to only a small section of VoIP users by the VoIP operators [...]
