On 11 March 2015 at 10:45, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
On 11/03/2015 10:02, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
It should be possible to do the emergency call without a SIM. That way you got 112 / 911 calls covered...
emergency calls without sim are part of the gsm standard. So unless the OP's provider is doing something terribly wrong and probably illegal, you can make a 112 call on any mobile device anywhere in the world within range of a compatible radio signal.
Can't find a definitive reference but this concurs with my recollection of a policy introduced in 2009: http://www.redcross.org.uk/en/What-we-do/Teaching-resources/Quick-activities... Some people think that 999 calls can be made from a phone without a SIM. In fact, because of the high number of hoax calls, the United Kingdom decided to block emergency calls from mobile phones without a SIM card. Aled