emergency telephone numbers
06-10-2004, 11:48
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emergency telephone numbers
Ok, everyone knows about 999 and 112. but today in out lecture (bored as usual) we discovered that while our mobiles have the keylock on, in a similar fashion to pushing 112 and 999 and it still works, the number 08 is also an emergency number. there are maybe 60 people in our lectures, and not one has ever heard of 08.
anyway, one perosn rang it and it was picked up instantly asking "which emergency service do you require?". he hung up pronto... but for example even 999 has one or two rings of the phone before an operator answer, this was *instant*.
so, long story short, what is 08? is it the same as 999 or 112, or is it something secret and different? google seems to be throwing up nothing 
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06-10-2004, 11:55
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Re: emergency telephone numbers
Never heard of it before myself, but it only works from mobiles...
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06-10-2004, 11:57
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Re: emergency telephone numbers
seems it only works on the newer mobiles too. a friend has one of the older (pre-color screen) nokias and it doesnt work on that. but modern colour screen ones and so froth have it.... we are really confused... no one (even lecturers who are supposed to know everything) knows...
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06-10-2004, 11:59
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Re: emergency telephone numbers
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seems it only works on the newer mobiles too. a friend has one of the older (pre-color screen) nokias and it doesnt work on that. but modern colour screen ones and so froth have it.... we are really confused... no one (even lecturers who are supposed to know everything) knows...
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*Goes off to a mobile forum he's a member of to ask
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06-10-2004, 12:03
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06-10-2004, 12:06
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Re: emergency telephone numbers
It seems odd that 08 can be used as an emergency services number. Just think about how many non emergency numbers start with 08, all the 0800, 0808,0845, etc numbers. If 08 is an emergency services number then I would have thought that they were getting thousands of non emergency calls every day.
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06-10-2004, 12:15
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06-10-2004, 12:46
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Re: emergency telephone numbers
Well, it is at the bottom of the phone & easy to move from one to the other.
Problem is that you then have to press the "yes" button to accept it as an emergency call (SOS).
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06-10-2004, 12:53
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Re: emergency telephone numbers
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*Goes off to a mobile forum he's a member of to ask
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<<<< Intriqued (sp!) and waiting for an answer or some further info from bopdude 
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06-10-2004, 13:24
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Re: emergency telephone numbers
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It seems odd that 08 can be used as an emergency services number. Just think about how many non emergency numbers start with 08, all the 0800, 0808,0845, etc numbers. If 08 is an emergency services number then I would have thought that they were getting thousands of non emergency calls every day.
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The reason that it only works on mobiles is because when you have dialed the number, you have to press the dial/ call button to connect so this should prevent people who are ringing full numbers starting 08 getting through ot the emergency services.
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06-10-2004, 13:57
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Re: emergency telephone numbers
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The reason that it only works on mobiles is because when you have dialed the number, you have to press the dial/ call button to connect so this should prevent people who are ringing full numbers starting 08 getting through ot the emergency services.
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Some people (my wife for example) press the call button before dialling the number.
Apparantly the 08 number is used for emergency calls in Mexico (soon to be replaced by a 3 digit number) and is included in the default set of emergency numbers in mobile phones for when the phone cannot find the list of usable emergency numbers that it should use.
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06-10-2004, 14:01
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Re: emergency telephone numbers
all well and good but i'm not in mexico 
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06-10-2004, 14:37
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Re: emergency telephone numbers
From what I understand it is a remote code for 999. Ie you can use some CTRL-C etc controls to control parts of your PC. New EPROM chips which enable MMS and enhanced features should all jhave this feature. There are many keypad shortcuts which are used for testing. They will never all be known.
Why posts have been deleted is also very odd.
Hope this helps.
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06-10-2004, 14:45
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Re: emergency telephone numbers
999 and 112 emergency numbers can be dialed even without a SIM card in the mobile phone.
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06-10-2004, 14:47
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Re: emergency telephone numbers
yeah thats magick, it just latches on to the first network it finds... still none the wiser waht happened around post 11 though 
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