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Everyone seems to be blaming either Microsoft or Google in this thread, but I disagree. I think _both_ are culpable. Microsoft teams shouldn't crash when makin

Everyone seems to be blaming either Microsoft or Google in this thread, but I disagree. I think _both_ are culpable. Microsoft teams shouldn't crash when making a 911 call. Google shouldn't hand 911 calls off to microsoft teams (though I'm not 100% clear on what the interaction should be if you have a custom phone app... maybe it should be able to handle the 911 calls? what if you install a custom phone app because the default one is broken... you'd definitely want your non-broken preference to be respected for important calls like 911). Either way, I still think they're both culpable.

shakna 5y ago
> though I'm not 100% clear on what the interaction should be if you have a custom phone app... maybe it should be able to handle the 911 calls? Thankfully, the law is completely unambiguous and tells us exactly how it should be handled: > Mobile telephones manufactured after February 13, 2000... must incorporate a special procedure for processing 911 calls. Such procedure must recognize when a 911 call is made and, at such time, must override any programming in the mobile unit that determines the handling of a non-911 call. Android is required to handle emergency calls differently.