Another glaring example of how corporations are out-of-control in this country.
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Internet phone providers were ordered Thursday to begin supplying reliable 911 emergency call service after regulators heard an anguished Florida woman describe how she was unable to summon help to save her dying infant daughter….
…Her voice breaking, Cheryl Waller of Deltona, Fla., told the commissioners before their vote that “120 days is seven days longer than my daughter lived.” Julia Waller “died at 113 days old because I can’t reach an operator,” she said.
Waller said she got a recording when she used her Internet phone to call 911 after her daughter stopped breathing last March. By the time she was able to summon help with a neighbor’s phone, the child was dead.
Instead of focusing on issues like this, our leaders are worried about who I’m poking at night or who I choose to marry. Where were the morals of the company exec’s who rolled out this service knowing that it was missing a critical component? Once again, we wait until a problem bites us squarely in the ass before we act. Shameful to say the least.
Hmmm. I understand your issue with our current administration’s obsession/fixation on our morality (yet, lack the ability to look inward). However, IF the VOIP company execs declared “what” their service could and could not do, then I don’t know if I could characterize their morals as remissive. Caveat Emptor! Our government has overlooked the impact of cell phones of vehicle accidents in defference to the commerce of telecommunications. To me, that IS a documented fact. Yet, cell phone calls without handfree devices is still legal in cars — where is the moral outrage?