[VoiceOps] Misrouting 911 Calls?

[Aaron C. de Bruyn]

Thanks to everyone who responded both on and off-list.
I think I'm going to go with a 3rd-party provider for routing 911 calls and
just count down the months until they can ditch Comcast.

-A

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 10:30 AM Aaron C. de Bruyn <aaron at heyaaron.com>
wrote:

> One of my clients has a large SIP trunk with Comcast based out of
> Washington State.
>
> They have all their offices across Oregon and Washington hooked into a
> FreePBX phone server that is attached to the Comcast SIP trunk.
>
> 911 calls *constantly* get misrouted to the local PSAP where the SIP trunk
> lives.
>
> I must have called Comcast 30 times over the last few years to try and get
> this addressed, but Comcast flat-out refuses to fix the issue.
>
> The short answer is that Comcast refuses to fix it.  In some (but not all)
> cases, our phone numbers are RCF'd numbers, so they don't actually exist on
> the trunk...and Comcast forcibly re-writes them to our 'main' number...and
> then routes the 911 call incorrectly.  In other cases, we have provided
> Comcast with the e911 information, they say it's updated, and then we find
> out months later (when an office dials 911 during an emergency) that it's
> still not correct.
>
> Not only does this affect 911 calls, but also customers who get the
> re-written caller ID and have no idea which office called them.
>
> The "easy" solution is to ditch Comcast and move to a provider that
> doesn't play the RCF and caller-ID-rewrite games.  Unfortunately my client
> is locked into their Comcast contract for another ~18 months.  Early
> termination would incur a ~$35,000 bill.
>
> Is there a list of PSAP numbers somewhere so I can set up an internal
> redirect to the PSAP 10-digit number?  I know those 10-digit numbers are
> guarded like Fort Knox, so I'm betting this option isn't very realistic.
>
> Maybe a separate service provider that can just handle 911 calls without
> "owning" my client's phone numbers?
>
> Any other thoughts on how I can route around Comcast brain damage?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -A
>
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