I just have the normal phone from Consumer cellular....I am not sure it
has GPS!
On 2017-05-31 08:45 PM, Chris Rasmussen wrote:
Am I wrong that I thought cell phones now have GPS in them, Smart and I
phones anyway. So they can pinpoint your location if you can't tell them were
you are in an emergency. I know mine through Consumer Cellular has GPS.
Chris Rasmussen
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Hi Chris, I found your article very very interesting thanks for sharing.
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On May 31, 2017, at 2:19 PM, Christine Diller <friend_bride_wife@xxxxxxxxxx>it has not yet been implemented.
wrote:
The number 911 is used for emergencies in North America, but why is that
particular number used, and how did it all start?
The original 911 system began in the late 1960s, but the earliest system in
the United States for someone to make a request for emergency assistance
started just after the turn of the 20th century. The communications
company, Ericsson Incorporated, developed a portable phone handset and
crank in the early 1900s so people could communicate an emergency. Their
device used two metal hooks that were placed on bare phone wires to form a
connection. The hand box was then cranked, a connection was made, and it
was hoped that someone would answer the signal on the other end of the
line. While it was a crude beginning to an emergency communication system,
it was credited with success in reporting a train robbery around 1907 that
led to the arrests of the criminals.
It took a series of tragedies to get to the basic 911 system we know today.
The most prominent was the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 which highlighted
the need for better disaster communications. Radio communications were
regularly used between ships, but when the Titanic had signaled an
emergency, it was never received by the nearest ship because the radio
operator was off duty. In response to the disaster, the United States
Congress passed the Radio Act of 1912. It required that all ships at sea
had to have a radio operator on duty at all times so a possible distress
call wouldn't be missed. This passing of this Radio Act established a
connection between the government and emergency communications.
It would be more than 50 years before the basic 911 service would be
implemented, however. Prior to that time, if someone had an emergency, the
person would dial zero to get an operator. It became apparent that the
operators weren't specifically trained to handle an emergency situation,
and they didn't have the necessary tools to answer or handle an emergency
call effectively. In response to these problems, the National Association of
Fire Chiefs recommended a single telephone number to report fires in the
1950s. The request was never implemented, but it did highlight to the
government the inadequacies of the current system.
In 1967, a report from the Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration
of Justice under President Lyndon Johnson recommended that citizens should
be able to contact police departments using a single number. In January
1968, AT&T announced that 911 would be the universal emergency number. The
first 911 call was made by Senator Rankin Fite the next month in Haleyville,
Alabama. It wouldn't be until 1999 and the signing of the Public Safety Act
that 911 was officially designated as the nation's emergency number.
But why was the number 911 picked to be used in an emergency in the first
place? AT&T designated the numbers 9-1-1 because they wanted a number that
was short and easy to remember, and one that hadn't been used as an area
code. Since rotary phones were the main phones being used at the time, a
shorter number was also a lot easier to dial.
The 911 system allowed local control over emergency communications, but by
the early 1970s, 911 operators were beginning to see the value of having a
person's name, phone number, and address show up when a person called in an
emergency. This led to the Enhanced 911 system in the mid-1970s. This
allowed a call to be routed to the proper authorities, it identified the
location, and also identified the number. With the rise of cell phones,
however, the ability of a precise location has become a problem. According
to a 2015 report by USA Today, many places in the country report that the
location from an emergency call is not showing up accurately. Operators can
sometimes only locate the cell tower that was used for the call. In
California alone, just under 50% of the calls included a location. Since
more than 70% of 911 calls originate from cell phones, the government has
proposed a new 911 system called Next Generation 911. The technology is in
place for the new system, but
While 911 is the emergency number for North America, in the United KingdomTo send a message,
the emergency number is 999. The United Kingdom's emergency number is
actually the earliest. It was established in 1935 when five women died
during a fire in London. Though neighbors tried to dial zero for the
operator, they found that it was jammed, and they couldn't alert anyone
about the fire. Another method for calling in an emergency was to dial the
police by asking the operator for Whitehall 1212. In response to the
tragedy, the General Post Office proposed a three digit number of 999 that
would alert operators through a special signal that the call was an
emergency. The system went into place in 1937 and first covered a 12 mile
radius in London. One of the first calls was from a woman saying that her
husband was chasing a burglar. The burglar was caught quickly. The United
Kingdom and its territories still use the 999 number for emergencies today.
Sources:
NENA, The Industry Council, PBS, USA Today, The Desert Sun, 911.gov <
http://911.gov/
-- Christine
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