You're all over thinking this

Thu Jul 21 15:21:36 UTC 2005

Martin Hepworth <martinh at solid-state-logic.com> wrote:
> Peter Corlett wrote:
[...]
>> AFAIAA, Magrathea don't offer access to 112/999, but this is no
>> great loss given that mobile phones are cheap, ubiqitous, and work
>> pretty much everywhere in the UK. Even hermits have them :)
> Given the recent London experience should mobiles be used as a
> backup to proper land lines..??????

112/999 takes priority over regular calls. There doesn't seem to be
any evidence that calls to 999 from mobiles were any more prone to
failure than those from landlines.

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