Chief Technical Officer
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On the radio earlier today, I heard a story about something that happened in Canada this week.
Apparently, a man gave his mobile to his 11-month old son to play with. Somehow the son calls “911”; the Canadian police traced the call and zoomed round to the house. After knocking several times and getting no response, the police broke down the door, and found the dad with glazed eyes, the baby still playing with the phone. The police quickly established that the baby had called the emergency services accidentally, but decided to check the house out anyway. They found 5,000 maroana (sp.) plants growing there...:-)
Heh.
I've seen people lock their phone keypads and give them to kids to play with... Apparently not everyone is aware that 911 still works on most cell phones even if the keypad is locked... and even if the phone has no active service!
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I've seen people lock their phone keypads and give them to kids to play with... Apparently not everyone is aware that 911 still works on most cell phones even if the keypad is locked... and even if the phone has no active service!
Well I sure wasn't aware of that fact! How can 911 still work if you've got no service?!
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I've seen people lock their phone keypads and give them to kids to play with... Apparently not everyone is aware that 911 still works on most cell phones even if the keypad is locked... and even if the phone has no active service!Well I sure wasn't aware of that fact! How can 911 still work if you've got no service?!
Required to by law....any cell phone.
Yeah, that's why women's shelters and other services do cell phone drives some times, so that abused women can have a last line of communication if something terrible happens.
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Well I sure wasn't aware of that fact! How can 911 still work if you've got no service?!
It has to have *some* service, obviously, but the providers in most countries are required to route 911 (or 112, or in the UK 999) calls regardless of whether they will give you any other access....
I know in some places my phone will give a display message of "Emergency calls only" when I only have signal on some other providers network....
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Chief Technical Officer
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Well I sure wasn't aware of that fact! How can 911 still work if you've got no service?!It has to have *some* service, obviously, but the providers in most countries are required to route 911 (or 112, or in the UK 999) calls regardless of whether they will give you any other access....
I know in some places my phone will give a display message of "Emergency calls only" when I only have signal on some other providers network....
Right... When I said "no service," I meant "no active account," not "no signal."
You don't need an active account for 911 to work, but you do need to be in a usable service area.
