[Gllug] OT Internet connection

[Jason Clifford]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, t.clarke wrote:

> How does this #1 a minute charge work? Is it that non-BT telcos simply
> route 999 calls to the BT operator service and pay #1 a minute for the
> privilege?  In which case this is probably quite reasonable, as they are
> not having to fork out for their own staff to handle the calls.

Each telco has to make it's own arrangements. These include determining
the location of the caller (which is very hard with VoIP) and may also
include 1st line handling and terminating the call to the relevant
emergency service. The telco may opt to come to an arrangement with
another telco for part of this but even if they do not the telco will have 
to pay to terminate the call to the emergency service.

Jason
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