[178837] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Phone adapter with router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aled Morris)
Wed Mar 11 07:04:23 2015
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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:04:19 +0000
From: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 11 March 2015 at 10:45, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 11/03/2015 10:02, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> > It should be possible to do the emergency call without a SIM. That way
> you
> > got 112 / 911 calls covered...
>
> emergency calls without sim are part of the gsm standard. So unless the
> OP's provider is doing something terribly wrong and probably illegal, you
> can make a 112 call on any mobile device anywhere in the world within range
> of a compatible radio signal.
>
>
Can't find a definitive reference but this concurs with my recollection of
a policy introduced in 2009:
http://www.redcross.org.uk/en/What-we-do/Teaching-resources/Quick-activities/999
Some people think that 999 calls can be made from a phone without a SIM. In
fact, because of the high number of hoax calls, the United Kingdom decided
to block emergency calls from mobile phones without a SIM card.
Aled
