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96% of SunRocket Customers Have Full E-911; Internet Phone Company Provides Enhanced 911 Emergency Services For All New Subscribers.


VIENNA, Va. -- SunRocket, one of the nation's leading Internet phone service See VoIP.  providers, today announced that it has equipped 96% of its customers with E-911 services, in advance of the original November 28th deadline ordered by the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest.  (FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. ) last May. "E-911", short for "Enhanced 911", is a technology that allows emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services'  to pinpoint the physical location and identify the call-back number of the 911-caller.

"We did not wait for the government to require us to give our customers E-911," said Paul Erickson
For the baseball player, see Paul Erickson (MLB pitcher)


Paul Erickson (November 22, 1920 - October 27, 1991) was a Welsh scriptwriter, most active in the 1950s and 1960s.
, chairman and co-founder of SunRocket. "We recognize that safety matters most and that consumers expect to get emergency assistance when they dial 911 from any telephone. SunRocket built E-911 support into our business plan from the beginning."

Much attention has been focused on the FCC ruling last May, which required that all providers of Voice over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP.

(networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol.
 (VoIP) provide Enhanced 911 to their subscribers and disconnect service for those not provisioned with it. Facing the November 28th deadline, the FCC recently revised its position so that non-compliant VoIP providers would not have to disconnect existing customers, though the agency still expects VoIP providers to cease marketing efforts in areas where customers cannot receive E-911.

"We simply decided that SunRocket would not sell Internet phone service where we could not provide access to E-911," continued Erickson. "Consumers deserve E-911 support, and we feel it is important that we deliver that capability, regardless of whether or not we are required to do so."

Since last spring, SunRocket has restricted new subscriber enrollment to only those areas where SunRocket can offer E-911 service, so that all new subscribers are equipped with E-911 support. As SunRocket expands its geographic coverage footprint, those customers lacking full E-911 support are upgraded. By year-end 2005, SunRocket expects that nearly 99 percent of its subscribers will be equipped with E-911.

About SunRocket

Headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, SunRocket, the "no gotcha (jargon, programming) gotcha - A misfeature of a system, especially a programming language or environment, that tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it both enticingly easy to invoke and completely unexpected and/or unreasonable in its outcome. " phone company, is bringing Internet phone service to mainstream America with the nation's first full-year, flat-rate home phone package. SunRocket is the only company to offer complete Internet phone service at an all-inclusive, bottom-line annual price of $199, with no hidden charges, termination penalties or "gotchas." SunRocket makes it easy for households with high-speed Internet access to take advantage of the incredible value and enhanced capabilities of state-of-the-art Internet telephony. For more information about this privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market
close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation
, see the company's web site at www.SunRocket.com.
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