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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: You're all over thinking this (was: Re: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service)
On 20 Jul 2005, at 21:46, Brad Knowles wrote: In the case of regular cell phones, if you are roaming on a network in a foreign country, or you have rented a local phone, I understand that the carriers have gotten together and made sure that the various 911/112/999 emergency services numbers work world-wide, so that if you're an American in Europe, you can still call 911 and have that work as expected.Cite? (This isn't my experience at all, although obviously it's possible that the very few occasions I've had to test this have just been localised inability to implement the arrangement you describe.) (Emergency services are obtained by dialling 111 in New Zealand, for the record, just to make your list a little more complete. The physical act of dialling 111 in New Zealand on a rotary phone was the same as dialling 999 in England, however, since the dials in each country were numbered in opposite directions; a New Zealand "1" and an English "9" were both sent as nine pulses.) (Not that any of this has much to do with network operations.) Joe
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