From: Jay R. Ashworth (no email)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 16:19:59 EST
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:25:27AM -0800, David Barak wrote:
> > most american PBX's don't have 911 as a dialplan.
> > you have to dial 9-911.
>
> We work on different PBXes. The ones on which I work
> are specifically configured to respond to 911 OR 9-911
> to avoid a problem. Would YOU want to have been the
> person who didn't enable one of those options, and
> thus delayed response time?
Would *you* want to be the person who got a dressing down from the
local fire chief because several of your phones had skip-py 1 keys,
people trying to dial 9-1-800-555-1212 kept dialling 911 instead?
There are *many* possible failure modes involving 911:
http://www.911dispatch.com/911_file/911_misdials.html
And for background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-1-1
It's not as simple as it looks, off topic though it probably is.
Cheers,
-- jr 'learning opportunity' a
-- Jay R. Ashworth Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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