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> Your story about calling 911 in NYC and getting an out of town call center is obvious fiction You sound very sure of yourself, but telephony is pretty damn c
by mysterypie 10y ago
> Your story about calling 911 in NYC and getting an out of town call center is obvious fiction
You sound very sure of yourself, but telephony is pretty damn complex and there are lots of strange things that happen in telephone call routing. Maybe if that guy has a cell number from another city or a foreign country, or with a certain carrier that doesn't comply with all the requirements of E911, or there are obscure bugs in the routing system, it'll get routed to a non-NYC call center. Are you sure that never happens?
- bluejekyll 10y agoIn San Francisco, if you dial 911 on a cell phone you get the CHP, not San Francisco police. Adds delay to the help getting there. There is real number you can dial instead, which I've stored in my phone and allows me to dial the SF 911 center directly. Luckily I haven't needed it for more than a brush fire. This might be true in other states as well.
- honkhonkpants 10y agoIn SF when you dial 911 it is a good solid five minutes before anyone picks up because there is first the TTY modem handshake and then a recorded message in English, Spanish, more than one kind of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and on and on.
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- limeyx 10y agoKind of amazing you can't make an account on 911.com, register your cell phone and home phone #s and put in your preferred language, allergies to medicines, serious illnesses etc and have all that come up to the dispatcher when you call.... But I also worked in that industry for a while and thats not going to happen anytime soon by the looks of it