Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1991 23:10:46 GMT From: Brian Cuthie Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Emergency Highway Phones Message-ID: Organization: Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Academic Computing Services Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 435, Message 2 of 11 Lines: 22 In article decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well! dag@uunet.uu.net (Darren Alex Griffiths) writes: > A local newscast reported on some interesting highway emergency phones > this morning. It seems that CalTrans is installing phones throughout > the San Francisco bay area on major highways. The phones connect you > All that is fairly standard, the interesting part is that the phones > are all cellular and run on solar power so no wires are needed to hook > 'em up. The reported said that the phones could be installed in about We have had those here on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway for some time now. Pretty neat idea. As far as I know, the cellular companies cannot charge for emergency 911 calls. Whether this applies to non-911 emergency calls from the phones in question, I don't know. Even if the local government was required to pay for the calls, it's nothing like the cost ofinstalling wiring to each location. brian