Methods of placing emergency telephone calls using customer premises
equipment at a customer premises may be provided. In particular, a data
connection may be provided between the customer premises equipment at the
customer premises and a data network, and a request for an emergency call
being placed from the customer premises equipment may be detected.
Responsive to detecting the request for an emergency call, an address for
a public safety answering point corresponding to the customer premises
may be retrieved from memory at the customer premises. After retrieving
the address for the public safety answering point, a voice communication
may be established between the customer premises equipment and the public
safety answering point corresponding to the customer premises.