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From: contact!ndallen@uunet.uu.net (Nigel Allen)
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Subject: Pennsylvania Turnpike: New Cellular Emergency Number
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Date: 16 Aug 90 07:27:00 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 580, Message 10 of 13


 From {Motor Truck} Magazine, Toronto, August 1990
 
	For truckers, reporting an emergency on the famous
Pennsylvania Turnpike is now as easy as punching three buttons on the
cellular telephone.
 
	It's as easy as dialling three digits, *11, to report
accidents, incidents or calls for assistance. The call goes directly
to dispatchers and state police on 24 hour duty.
 
	Seven cellular carriers in Pennsylvania are cooperating with
the turnpike authority to provide the toll-free service, the first
highway in the U.S. to provide cellular direct-dial emergency service.
 
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[Notes from NDA: This is from a trucking magazine that isn't terribly
telecommunications-literate, and sounds like a rewritten press
release. I do not know whether the claim of being first is correct.]