Customer premises equipment and method for sending location information of the customer premises equipment

A customer premises equipment adapted for sending location information of the customer premises equipment over the Internet, the customer premises equipment comprising:

• a request module configured for determining if a physical location of the customer premises equipment needs to be sent, and sending a request message to request the physical location, wherein the determination is based at least partly on a setting or a command from a user;
• a positioning module configured for searching positioning coordinates of the customer premises equipment according to the request message, and transforming the positioning coordinates to the physical location of the customer premises equipment;
• and
• an address sending module configured for sending the physical location of the customer premises equipment over the Internet.