On Monday, 30 September 2024 13:10:04 AEST Brian May via luv-main wrote: > My vague understanding is that hang up calls to 000 in Australia do not > require followup. I couldn't guarantee the accuracy though. I have heard > that we tend to get a lot of false calls to 000 from things like > misconfigured vending machines (not sure if this is still the case). And > I am not convinced our database of addresses for the 000 operator is > particularly acurate or reliable. In the past when I have made calls to > 000 even from fixed analog copper landline they always ask for the > address.
They do sometimes follow up on hungup calls. I once had them call me back after apparently butt-dialling 000. > I think it might be different for 911 calls in USA, I have heard that > every hang up calls require police to be dispatched. If they dispatched police to every butt-dial the police would be very busy. > In any case, I have heard it is far far better to tell the operator it > was an accidental call or a test call or whatever rather then just > hanging up. Typically the operator doesn't care, they just want to know > if there is cause to be concerned. I have in the past made a test call to 000 and told the operator it was to test a new phone system and they were happy with that. > I have also heard that you should not be making calls to 000 to test > VoLTE on your phone. Which means you can't really test 000 calls. They don't want a million people to test it. But for people who do development on Mobian, LineageOS, etc to do the occasional test would be reasonable. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
