Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: amdcad!amdcad.AMD.COM!rpw3@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular Phone & 911 Message-ID: Date: 23 May 89 09:27:24 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Rob Warnock Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA Lines: 31 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 175, message 5 of 7 westmark!dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) writes: +--------------- | org!ddodell@asuvax.asu.edu (David Dodell) writes: | > I was curious if Enhanced 911 can pick up the phone number when you are | > calling from a mobile phone (either cellular or IMTS)? | ...When I dial 911, who I get seems to depend upon where the car is. | If I'm driving in New Jersey, I reach the NJ State Police. When I | call from New York City, I get the NYC 911 operator. While they may | not get my mobile number, they do make some use of the mobile | telephone system's knowlege of where I'm calling from, probably | based upon which cell site is handling the call. +--------------- In the Bay Area, the CA Highway Patrol apparently likes the help it's been getting from drivers with cellular phones... so now *all* cellular 911 calls go directly to the CHP. If it's not a CHP-servicable call they re-route you to the "appropriate" authority. Oddly enough, they seemed to consider a three-car accident I reported on US-101 ("The Bayshore Freeway") to be a "local" matter; they transferred me to the Palo Alto police! I don't know if they have ANI or not. They do ask for your name and cellular number (they know it's cellular), but that may be just for prank detection. [Does anybody know if they have access to cell site?] Rob Warnock Systems Architecture Consultant UUCP: {amdcad,fortune,sun}!redwood!rpw3 DDD: (415)572-2607 USPS: 627 26th Ave, San Mateo, CA 94403