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Yes! the little-known 710-NCS-GETS phone number. It's the only phone number in the 710 area code. If you dial that number and then enter in your special 12 dig
by deftnerd 10y ago
Yes! the little-known 710-NCS-GETS phone number. It's the only phone number in the 710 area code.
If you dial that number and then enter in your special 12 digit security code, you can make an outbound call to any other number.
All the telephone switches in the US are required to treat calls to the 710 area code as priority, at the expense of dropping any existing traffic that it needs to drop.
The end result is even overloaded exchanges can be used by first responders with the proper security codes. "GETS is designed to provide a 90% call completion rate when call volume is eight times normal capacity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Emergency_Telecommunications_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Emergency_Telecommu...
- chiph 10y agoThat's a different implementation from DoD's classic AUTOVON system, which used phones with the "missing" four DTMF tones to assign priority. "Flash Override" was pretty much restricted to National Command Authority (the President and Joint Chiefs) and would allegedly clear entire trunk lines to ensure call completion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovon