[ale] OT: plethora of cell phones

[Geoffrey]

Mike Lockhart wrote:
> 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.

I would beg to differ on the 40 year old house.  If you do not have 
dialtone, you will not get connected to anything.

> 
> 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)

My phone has that 'option' but it was not default.  It is a Nokia.

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