What does Skype, the worlds largest VoIP provider, say about the issue?
Skype doesn’t offer 911 connectivity and “it’s very proactive in communicating that to users,” said Skype spokeswoman Kelly Larabee. Anything’s possible, but it would seem incredibly difficult and prohibitively expensive for Skype to set up a system in which every call to 911 is routed to the most appropriate emergency-response location. It’s a matter of logistics. Skype would have to know the names and addresses of hundreds of millions of people located around the globe, then ensure each and every one’s location was updated whenever they moved. No VoIP operator has ever tried that before.
