The trade group for Georgia’s payphone owners disagreed with conc...
The trade group for Georgia’s payphone owners disagreed with concerns that if the Public Service Commission allows them to use VoIP service for public telephones, the public’s access to 911 may suffer. The Georgia Public Communications Association said use…
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of VoIP at a payphone location raises no more public safety concerns than does use of VoIP at residences. The group said a payphone’s location is fixed, so the VoIP provider should have no problem routing a 911 call from the payphone to the correct public safety answering point. The group wants the PSC to change its payphone access rules to allow payphone owners to use any technically feasible means, including broadband and VoIP, to provide payphone service.