Ryan may be on to something. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=403.025&year=2011&keyword_type=all&keyword=Emergency+phone+service Subdivision three of statute 403.025 states: Subd. 3.Connected telecommunications service provider requirements. Every owner and operator of a wire-line or wireless circuit switched or packet-based telecommunications system connected to the public switched telephone network shall design and maintain the system to dial the 911 number without charge to the caller. That seems to at least infer that I should be able to disconnect my line and still be able to dial 911 in an emergency. Someone else suggested the @CenturyLinkHelp twitter account. I'm going to hit them up and confirm as well. -- G. Scott Walters On Jan 21, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > On Jan 21, 2012, at 4:55 PM, Steve McGrath wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 3:50 PM, G Scott Walters >> <gscottwalters at gmail.com> wrote: >>> My household currently has local phone service with CenturyLink. Like most >>> people, we make most of our calls on our mobile phones. The primary reason >>> I've not considered going without a land line, is for 911 service. I have >>> two kids, and would prefer that they are able to pickup a regular handset, >>> than try to find a prepaid cell phone in a drawer somewhere. >>> >>> Its come to my attention that some states require emergency phone service, >>> even on a disconnected line. This is sometimes called a 'soft line' or 'warm >>> line'. But the only information I can find on this law is from a 3 year old >>> article from Consumer Reports here: >>> http://news.consumerreports.org/electronics/2009/05/update-about-911-and-disconnected-landlines.html >>> >>> Can anyone definatively say that Minnesota does or does not have this >>> requirement? Anyone with a disconnected CenturyLink line into your ho >>> willing to test this? Apparently, you can dial 811 on a disconnected line >>> and get to a telco switch board; I wouldn't recommend to anyone dialing 911 >>> for non-emergency reasons. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Scott >> >> Sounds like you really ought to just ask Centurylink to be sure. >> They're actually incredibly responsive via Twitter; @CenturyLinkHelp. >> >> -Steve > > Actually, this is a question for the Minnesota Statutes lookup or the Secretary of State's office. > https://www.revisor.mn.gov/pubs/ > > Your typical CSR won't know this with certainty. > > This law, though, has been on the books for a very long time. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120121/b1e6ce4f/attachment.html>