Calling 911 from ooma with landline
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:30 pm
I found in the user guide that: If you are using your ooma system with a landline and you place a 911 call, the call will be placed over your landline phone service to ensure that your location is quickly identified. 911 calls will continue to work even if your Internet connection is down or there is a power outage in your house.
Is this applicable even if I chose to activate ooma without the landline integration? I plan to port my phone number to ooma but keep the metered local landline from AT&T as a backup for 911, and a security system. I don't want ooma to route any local calls to my landline but it would be nice if I could still plug in the main hub and scout to the wall jacks and rely on ooma to route my 911 calls to landline.
Again, the question is if it works even if ooma has been activated WITHOUT the landline integration.
Is it legal to call 911 just to test it works and figure out which way it's routed? I don't want to end up in jail or cited for abusing 911 like that chicken mcnuggets lady.
Is this applicable even if I chose to activate ooma without the landline integration? I plan to port my phone number to ooma but keep the metered local landline from AT&T as a backup for 911, and a security system. I don't want ooma to route any local calls to my landline but it would be nice if I could still plug in the main hub and scout to the wall jacks and rely on ooma to route my 911 calls to landline.
Again, the question is if it works even if ooma has been activated WITHOUT the landline integration.
Is it legal to call 911 just to test it works and figure out which way it's routed? I don't want to end up in jail or cited for abusing 911 like that chicken mcnuggets lady.