XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 8/12/2025 4:35 am, Paul wrote:   
   > On Sun, 12/7/2025 7:48 AM, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> On 7/12/2025 11:46 am, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>> On Fri, 5 Dec 2025 14:48:12 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I think all of these (000, 999, 911) are supposed to be phased out   
   >>>> in favor of 112. In the new system, all "special service codes" begin   
   >>>> with 11x. The USA, of course, is not joining world standards.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> As a result, I think all mobile phones will route any of these codes to   
   >>>> the emergency response center wherever you are.   
   >>>   
   >>> In South Africa all cell phones have the emergency number 112, but on   
   >>> landlines it is 10111.   
   >>>   
   >> Oh, how handy. In a Emergency, you have to stop and think "What phone am I   
   using now??"   
   >   
   > I'm willing to bet, that if you phone 112 on the landline,   
   > an informative message will give you the correct number   
   > to call, like if it is 10111. The number space on each   
   > phone, for special numbers, has to be mapped properly.   
   > They could not afford to miss a detail like that.   
   >   
   > For example here, I cannot remember what number I would be   
   > phoning, but I have heard (burned into acoustic memory) this while   
   > I'm waiting for someone to answer.   
   >   
   >     "If this is an emergency, please hang up and dial 911"   
      
   Yeap, when I call my General Practice Doctor, I get that sort of   
   message, too. (Different number, though. ;-P )   
      
   > That's what I would expect, from an unmapped short number.   
   > They will tell you what number to use, in that recorded message.   
   >   
   > Not everything in the phone system is tested.   
   > But some things are tested. And that would be one of them.   
   >   
   >     Paul   
   >   
      
      
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