[82531] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: You're all over thinking this (was: Re: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu Jul 21 09:34:32 2005
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:32:25 -0400
To: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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
