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.
I don't think the SIM would matter, in fact you used to be able to dial 112 in Australia without a SIM in GSM handsets, however due to the level of prank calls they have since blocked/disabled SIM-less emergency calls. GSM phones download localised settings from the GSM network/tower they connect to, apart from emergency numbers this includes things like the prefix needed to dial international numbers replacing the '+', current time/time zone etc, what the handsets gets/uses depends on the handset + whatever the carrier is broadcasting to them. If you would like to see a number adopted internationally perhaps you should annoy the carriers in question into supporting something that is part of the GSM standard already like someone is sort of doing in South Africa: http://fix112please.blogspot.com/ -- 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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