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Re: You're all over thinking this

  • From: Scott W Brim
  • Date: Thu Jul 21 10:17:30 2005 
On 07/21/2005 09:32 AM, Joe Abley allegedly wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 ...

My experience is that the mobile network operators (in Europe and the
USA (GSM) anyway) are lumping all of these together, so that no matter
which you dial, you get the emergency service they connect you to.
They added to the list of "special" numbers, with a many-to-one
mapping of number to service.