"Dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 27/02/2015 17:34, Nightjar "cpb"@ wrote:
On 27/02/2015 17:03, Adrian wrote:
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:42:23 +0000, Nightjar "cpb"@ wrote:

Which is great, but... If you happen to be in Bristol, pick up the
phone and dial 911, then pause, there are ten thousand possible valid
phone numbers you could be dialling. Only one of them is the US
emergency number.

Bristol may not be the only city where that applies.

Do mobiles recognise local land line numbers without the dialling code?

No....

In which case, my suggestion that mobile phones should be able to divert
to the local emergency number if the user dials the number they would
use in their home country isn't affected by what happens on land lines
in Bristol.



The gsm standard states 112 is the emergency number (and uk operators
support 999). As only gsm mobiles work here any other emergency number
used by other mobile operators doesn't matter here. You either dial the uk
standard 999 or the international standard 112. There are posters on the
side of ambulances telling you what to dial in case you have missed it.

Still makes a lot of sense to add 911 as well and
that is what a lot of jurisdictions have done.