Reza M. Reza wrote: > Duane: > > Not sure where you got the info that 112 is internationalized for GSM > carriers. I am in Kuwait at the moment and out of pure curiosity I > dialed 112 on my GSM phone. "The number you dialed is incomplete or > incorrect", gives one carrier. Tried my wife's cell which is a different > carrier on GSM network. Had a friend in Bangladesh try it with the same > result. I put my Toronto SIM in the phone with no result. > > Clearly "112" is not internationalized on ALL GSM carriers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-1-2 "112 (one-one-two) is the emergency telephone number in the European Union member states and worldwide (on GSM mobile networks). In 1991, the European Union established 112 as the universal emergency number for all its member states. By early 2008 in all EU countries, except for Bulgaria,[1] 112 had already been implemented and can be called free of charge from any telephone or any mobile phone. The GSM mobile phone standard designates 112 as an emergency number, so it will work on such systems even in North America where it redirects to 911 or Australia where it redirects to 000. The number is now regulated across the EU by the Universal Service Directive[2]." -- Best regards, Duane http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Global Communication for the 21st Century "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip."
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