[82604] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 911, was You're all over thinking this (was: Re: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sun Jul 24 14:20:56 2005
Date: 24 Jul 2005 18:20:29 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <dbnssn$ofh$1@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk>
Cc: abuse@cabal.org.uk
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>> world-wide, so that if you're an American in Europe, you can still
>> call 911 and have that work as expected.
>
>Given that there are UK telephone numbers starting 911, this seems
>rather unlikely.
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.
I agree that for VoIP using normal phones through adapters, 911 in the
UK won't work.
