I agree it can happen on occasions but a mobile/cordless phone is still far more unreliable in an emergency .
I agree it can happen on occasions but a mobile/cordless phone is still far more unreliable in an emergency .
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I feel safer and I feel my kids are safer with a mobile phone more than any other possession. They (smart phones) are incredible pieces of kit these days.
Yes you often see people running around using their mobile phones to try and find a phone box, during emergencies.
Massive lol.
By the way, horses never run out of petrol yet they were replaced by engine driven fire engines. Crazy innit.
Precisely.
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You have more chance of having quick access to the emergency services via a mobile phone than any other form of communication on the planet. Thank God for mobile phones.
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Come the revolution it will be my VHF that I will be relying on. Until then, the land line can be replaced with a mobile.
Second that.
I was under the impression that any mobile has access to the emergency services network (ee?), so me being on three wouldn't matter in an emergency.
Plus, dialling 112 automatically send your location to the call handler.
Plus, 112 works (almost) worldwide.
Whatever type of phone one uses, ring 999 (or 112)and the emergency answering is always connected on the second nine, the third nine is there to give the impression of speed dialling
Which may not be the exact location, mostly it is near enough for the emergency crew to get to you without having to swim a river
Historically
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In rural areas that was true but not always, it depended how many exchanges were involved on the route from caller to a manned emergency desk
In large cities the phone system required three digits before the call could be "directed" to the nearest exchange with a manned emergency desk,
Although 999 takes longer on a rotary dial it was chosen because 111, 112 etc could be "dialled" by phone lines ( bare copper overhead wires ) shorting in the wind.
Also in phone boxe turning the dial as far the 9 operated a switch which bypassed the need to insert coins for an emergency call.
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You mean those that don't pay their parking tickets?
It depends on location and state of battery .
And if your limbs work.
The stats are still the same. There is a greater chance of having access to and ringing the emergency services from a mobile phone than any other device on the planet.
Period.
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Not if it isn't working. Not if its battery is flat. Not if something has gone wrong with the hardware or the software on what is quite a powerful computer. Not if there is no radio signal. Not if the network has significant problems.
Do these things happen to bog-standard traditional wired phones and the links to the exchanges?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/06/ericsson_o2_telefonica_uk_outage/
https://www.connexionfrance.com/Archive/SFR-mobile-network-down-for-six-hours
My point is by all means have mobile phones, cordless phones, VOIP phones, call forwarding services etc.
But never, ever, EVER give up also having a traditional hard-wired POTS phone.
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