AT&T Announces VoIP 911

By DT Staff Published October 25, 2009

AT&T is phasing in an Enhanced 911 service to its AT&T CallVantage Service users later this summer. The E-911 service will deliver a caller’s name, number, and address directly to the computer of a dispatcher when activated.

The new service has been testing the new service in a market by market approach since April of 2004. In service areas where the company has installed and tested E-911, new subscribers are automatically signed up with it. To date, the company has migrated tens of thousands of lines. Exceptions to this are subscribers who have selected out of area telephone numbers as their primary VoIP lines.

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