<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Great idea.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<br><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Mary Lou Carey via VoiceOps" <voiceops@voiceops.org><br><b>To: </b>"Mike Johnston" <mjohnston@wiktel.com><br><b>Cc: </b>voiceops@voiceops.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, October 12, 2022 1:53:39 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [VoiceOps] Lack of Sandbox<br><br>Maybe this suggestion should be made to NENA and the National 911 <br>administrators. They may not know it's a problem.<br><br>MARY LOU CAREY<br>BackUP Telecom Consulting<br>Office: 615-791-9969<br>Cell: 615-796-1111<br><br>On 2022-10-12 01:22 PM, Mike Johnston via VoiceOps wrote:<br>> I wish more 911 systems had a 933 number. I've made actual 911 calls<br>> for testing purposes more times than I can remember. I always call<br>> the Sheriff's Office admin line first, asking if this is an alright<br>> time. But sometimes my 911 call is routed to a different county than I<br>> expected, and that doesn't always go so well with the dispatcher. But<br>> that sort of proves why we need to do the test calls.<br>> <br>> On a related note, we sometimes setup a 977 number on PBX systems.<br>> This will read back the number that will be outpulsed if you were to<br>> call 911. There are scenarios where what you would normally want to<br>> use as the outbound calling number is not the same as what you want to<br>> use when calling 911 (for E911 location, callback, etc.). Our 977<br>> number helps us verify we have at least that much configured<br>> correctly.<br>> <br>> But we still would need to call 911 so a dispatcher can verify the <br>> rest.<br>> "Does your console say which room I am in, or which floor I am on?"<br>> "Room 207, Floor 2, Entrance 4"<br>> "Perfect. I'll call you back in a minute from the next room."<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> VoiceOps mailing list<br>> VoiceOps@voiceops.org<br>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops<br>_______________________________________________<br>VoiceOps mailing list<br>VoiceOps@voiceops.org<br>https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops<br></div><br></div></body></html>