[VoiceOps] Automatic 911 location updates

[Aaron C. de Bruyn]

I've always wondered why VoIP phones don't have a cheap GPS chip in them.

Sure, it could raise all sorts of problems from a spoofing
perspective, but for valid 911 calls it could come in handy...

-A
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 4:41 PM Ryan Delgrosso <ryandelgrosso at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Automatic, nope. Psuedo-auto im looking at it now.
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> West supports sending custom headers to indicate a phones location inside a building to provide additional routing info but nothing using geo-location.
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> You could leverage this to have phones send custom headers based on network location.
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> I have not seen anything using geo-ip or GPS primarily because most IP handsets dont to those things.
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> On 10/23/2018 4:21 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
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> Is anyone doing this yet?  The ability to detect the location of a phone and automatically update the 911 address?  Yes, I realize it's a difficult if not impossible thing, yet thought I'd ask since a customer asked me.
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