 firephotoKDEPremium
join:2003-03-18
Brewster, WA
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| 911 has a real phone number... Ma and Pa voip service user dials 911 and that number is forwared to 1-888-my-local-emergency-dispatch-center-number, pretty simple so the problem here is..... ? That's how cell phones used to do it and you know what the big problem there was? The telcos wouldn't give that super secret real phone number to the cell provider, that was the only holdup to having 911 on your cell phone in some areas back in the day. 
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join:2000-07-05
Kernersville, NC Reviews:
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| Re: 911 has a real phone number... said by firephoto:That's how cell phones used to do it and you know what the big problem there was? The telcos wouldn't give that super secret real phone number to the cell provider, that was the only holdup to having 911 on your cell phone in some areas back in the day. haha, yah right..."Supersecret phone number to 911"...Umm, there are direct trunks from the telco's switches to the 911 centers, not some dialup number thats super-secret. Talk about conspiracy theorists. | |
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 |  calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | Re: 911 has a real phone number... Yes, and the ILECs have tried everything possible to prevent any 9-1-1 solution from working, except for their own which requires that you have a switch in every exchange.
Nothing like trying to force the cheaper technology into your more expensive design to limit competition!
calvoiper
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| | said by firephoto:The telcos wouldn't give that super secret real phone number to the cell provider, that was the only holdup to having 911 on your cell phone in some areas back in the day. So it had nothing to do with a single cell tower providing cellular coverage to multiple local public safety jurisdictions? | |
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| RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | Re: 911 has a real phone number... Yeah, it was/is so secret that all you needed to do to get it is call the local police or fire dept. and ask, or look in the phone book under "emergency numbers". 
Is it just me, or are there really more and more slashdunces around here every day? | |
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| |  N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
kudos:1 | Re: 911 has a real phone number... Correct.
They are frequently called "Ring down" lines. The numbers are still listed in most blue pages across the country.
As a matter of fact, my town hands out a directory with all the township officials phone numbers, and includes the "super secret" number right in the hand out as an alternative to 911 in a non emergency.
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| | |  pokesphIt Is Almost FastPremium
join:2001-06-25
Sacramento, CA
kudos:1 | Re: 911 has a real phone number... that secret number you all speak of (yes there is some!) used to (maybe still does) show up on your cell bill - so all you had/have to do was/is look..
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