Christopher Allsop wrote: > The only caviat I can think of is that the phone has to be active on a > working network...in other words to my knowledge a GSM phone will not put a > 911 call through if there is only CDMA coverage around or the older analog > phones will not get a call through once analog is completely turned off. > This is of course due to incompatible technology preventing a call from > going through.
That's a slightly different issue, since GSM and CDMA (and WCDMA and UMTS and so on and so forth) are different protocols and the GSM phones don't know usually how to talk CDMA and/or the freqency bands/pairs the phones send and receive on etc etc etc As far as I'm aware any GSM phone/network has to allow calls to 112 (international GSM emergency number) regardless of everything else, including no sim, no account or roaming agreement with the network the phone can see, etc etc etc. I don't think there is any common emergency number in the CDMA world, and 112 on CDMA in Australia will not work either AFAIK. -- Best regards, Duane http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
