XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: horace@horacealgiers.com   
      
   On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 20:39:26 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:   
      
   > There are also some cheats, such as AT&T.  Their solution is to assume   
   > that anyone calling 911 is in a vehicle.  This is a good assumption   
   > based on caller statistics.  In California, when you call 911, you   
   > don't get the local 911 PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point).  You get   
   > the Highway Patrol.  So, AT&T decided to fudge to location to coincide   
   > with highways and roadways, thus improving their "accuracy".  That has   
   > failed miserably when someone called 911 from a baseball field, that   
   > had no address, and where the AGPS kluge located them at the nearest   
   > major roadway, about 1/2 mile away.   
      
   To this point, I never call 911 from home because I get the highway patrol   
   in Vallejo California, about 75 miles away, which is more than an hours   
   drive on the highway, without any traffic!   
      
   So one of my contacts is listed as "Emergency", and *that* calls the   
   *local* 911 dispatcher.   
      
   I guess I should make that local 911 a "speed dial" similar to "911", maybe   
   "91" or something like that.   
      
   OT: Do any of you have a good speed-dial mechanism so that I can program   
   the *local* 911 into my cellphone to be called when I call, say, "91"?   
      
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