Talk:9-1-1 Emergency Telephone Number Day

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The article is not about the Emergency telephone number 9-1-1 but about the day that promotes it. Please make this distinction when contributing. - kiwiinapanic 08:13 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)

The talk below was removed from article.

Remember that the emergency telephone number it´s 112 in Europe.

I suggest create worldwide emergency telephone number (a unique number for all the countries).

  • See that article - it already exists.
    • Really a worldwide one, no. There are a lot of national numbers.

A very interesting talk it´s the possibility to create an International Emergency Number, the same for all the world (i.e. no 112, nor 911, but a mixed one like 912 ). Mac

  • I think the introduction of the GSM mobile network has already pre-empted the possibility of creating a different number for world wide use. Why would you want another different number?
    • To remember it wherever one be (i.e. travelling abroad). It´s similar to the creation of the all-european 112. Never before there was something similar in my country. It unified a lot of different national emergency numbers.
  • Probably any number you pick is already used for some other service somewhere else in the world - I know 912 is a local number prefix in New Zealand.
    • Prefix can change too, like happened before in some countries, like mine. the important it´s have this auxiliary international emergency number. In the U.S.A you could use 911 and the international number. I in europe could use 112 and the international number, if convenient.
  • Besides 1-1-2 works world wide already on GSM mobiles.
    • In Spain, in fixed and mobile phones.
  • I also know that both 9-1-1 and 9-9-9 work on my local network, though that feature is not publicised and neither are the recognised local emergency telephone number. The Australians use 0-0-0, which is an interesting number to choose, because 0-0 is normally the international access code and NO international telephone number country code has a 0 in it, meaning the number cannot be assigned to an international telephone number sequence. Callers will still call the number that they consider to be their emergency telephone number, even overseas. I suspect that telephone companies will simply allocate all the common emergency telephone number or put announcements on them - giving the correct number to call. To do otherwise could be considered negligent. - kiwiinapanic 08:15 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)

To Discuss or add.

DO NOT ADD too much about 9-1-1 history here, put it on that page or the Emergency telephone number page.

To do lists shouldn't be on articles - here's fine.
Incidentally, is it really necessary to have this in a seperate article to [9-1-1]]? Why not merge the information? Martin

no response? merged...
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