[ale] OT: plethora of cell phones

[Mike Lockhart]

Any cellphone or landline phone, with service or not, its mandated by
the FCC to provide 911 service.  You can walk in to a 40 year old house
that has not service on its lines, plug up a phone, and promptly call
911.

On another note, I found out the hard way a while back that you have to
make sure to lock the keys on your phone.  Evidently Nokias (don't know
if they still do it), by default had the key "9" programmed to "*911",
which is the same as "911".  I promptly fixed that issues when the cops
showed up at my house (they looked up the address tagged to the phone,
and evidently gwinnett county has some basic cellphone triangulation
setup, as they told me they were able to determine my general location)

- mike

On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 15:52, Geoffrey wrote:
> Actually, it's my understanding that any cell phone will dial 911, 
> whether it's under contract to a service provider or not.  I've never 
> tried it, for obvious reasons.
> 
> Greg wrote:
> > There is an organization in Atlanta that gives them to women in distress who
> > need a way to call the police in an emergency - they (the organization)
> > programs the phones to call 911 only,set up the accounts, and then give them
> > to women who would need them.
> 
> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
> Think about it...
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