28 Mar 06 21:46, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> With a cell phone, it's different; you dial the number of the
 RW>> country code, 91, the city code, 11 and then the number. Since
 RW>> there is no 911 emergency numbers on cellular service,

 ml> i can agree with all this up to this last sentence portion...

Not wanting to be a nuisance, I've never attempted to use it. When I got
Joe's 99.9% surity that only 911 was required, I gave it a shot. Both of
you are right.

 ml> i've
 ml> never done anything other than dial 911 on my sprint cell phone when
 ml> i've needed to contact emergency or police services... it has worked
 ml> when on the highway when i've witnessed the final stages of a
 ml> rollover in the median at 2AM as well as calling for "assistance"
 ml> when following a vehical that can't decide whether to straddle the
 ml> center line or the white sideline of the pavement...

 ml> granted, it may be special programming within my cellular network or
 ml> phone but i haven't had to do anything special other than simply dial
 ml> 911 and hit the send button... it may very well be similar to the *HP
 ml> stuff that is also specially programed by the cellular companies to
 ml> ring up the highway patrol...

 ml> FWIW: yes, when i've called 911 on my cellphone, i've always gotten
 ml> the local 911 service available in the area where the cell tower i
 ml> was accessing was located... in a few instances, it was necessary for
 ml> them to transfer me to the 911 service in another county because i
 ml> had not yet been switched to the cell tower local to the incident
 ml> that i was calling about...




 ml> )\/(ark


Roy
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