On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:02:14 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:53:37 +1300 > Andrew Errington wrote: > > > > > > 2) You cross your fingers that your child never falls through a glass > > > door and you have to call 111. > > > > "Oh, won't someone please think of the children". Children will fall
Okay, forget the kids. What if you or your significant other trip while carrying a carving knife the wrong way? > I wonder if you can dial +64 111 on skype? one thing for sure, its gonna > confuse the call centre's caller id system. What we need is some open protocol to contact emergency services over VoIP (or just over anything-IP) that transmits your pre-programmed location details (and medical conditions, blood-type etc). Stop thinking VoIP <---> POTS gateway + 111 and think instead "HTF do I let emergency services know that I need help?" -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
