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Point Perp Accidents 23/24 Feb 2014 24-Feb-2014 At 11:51:14 AM peterc

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On 24/02/2014 TimP wrote:
>I Came across this clip on UK Climbing — 112, the emergency number on
>mobiles. The guy says it works in Europe and 70 countries including Australia.
>Does anyone have any experience with this?
>http://youtu.be/XPZv_8dABfU

It used to be the case that if you were out of range of your mobile service provider's towers in Australia, and needed to dial emergency services, you would dial 112.

That number would connect with another provider to make the emergency call. In other words, say you were with Optus and there were no Optus towers around. You could dial 112 and your phone would connect via a different provider, say Telstra, so you could make the emergency call. Like a roaming service for emergency calls. (Dialing 000 would only go via your provider).

112 still does this. But 000 now does this too (as long as your phone isn't too old - newer than 2002).

It's also worth noting that 112 does not work from landlines. It is for mobiles only.