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More Regulation to Cement 40-Year-Old 911 Service Posted by Alex Harris Back in 2005, the FCC gave providers of voice-over-internet service a mandate to, within a very short time frame, link all of their customers to 911 call centers. This in spite of VOIP’s growth even without 911 service. But some VOIP providers had trouble meeting the FCC deadline, because of resistance by the telephone companies that run the government-granted-monopoly 911 service. The telephone companies did not want compe