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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: 911, was You're all over thinking this (was: Re: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service)
John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > Given that we're talking about cell phones, it seems completely > likely. Cell phones present the dialed number as a block, so there's > no ambiguity between 911 and 911XXXXX. I don't know whether UK cell > carriers map 911 to 112, but there's no technical reason they can't > do so. If people expect 911 to work on mobile phones, they will also expect it to work on the PSTN. <rant> And why should the UK change its numbering system just because a few dumb Yanks who can't be bothered to learn local customs? Does 999 get through to the emergency services in the NANP? Does 112 work on non-GSM phones? How about Australia's 000? </rant> > I agree that for VoIP using normal phones through adapters, 911 in > the UK won't work. ATAs usually collect digits to send as a block as well, either with the user explicitly dialling # after the number, or implicitly after a timeout. At least that's what I see with Cisco ATA-186, 7940 and 7960 and the Sipura 2000 I've tested. -- It can't go any lower? Last time I checked, the minimum value of a traded security is $0.00. - H. Preisman, on Nortel dropping to $20 a share
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