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From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
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Subject: Re: Pennsylvania Turnpike: New Cellular Emrgency Number
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Date: 20 Aug 90 17:21:26 GMT
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In article <11032@accuvax.nwu.edu>, contact!ndallen@uunet.uu.net
(Nigel Allen) writes:

> For truckers, reporting an emergency on the famous
> Pennsylvania Turnpike is now as easy as punching three buttons on the
> cellular telephone.

> [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.]

It is indeed incorrect.  Here in the Research Triangle area of North
Carolina, for instance, road signs on Interstate 40 advising motorists
that the cellular number for the state Highway Patrol is "*HP" have
been around for a couple of years.  I believe that the same service is
also available in other parts of the state.


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