You're all over thinking this (was: Re: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service)

Thu Jul 21 13:32:25 UTC 2005

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