On 11 March 2015 at 10:45, Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org> wrote: > On 11/03/2015 10:02, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > > It should be possible to do the emergency call without a SIM. That way > you > > got 112 / 911 calls covered... > > emergency calls without sim are part of the gsm standard. So unless the > OP's provider is doing something terribly wrong and probably illegal, you > can make a 112 call on any mobile device anywhere in the world within range > of a compatible radio signal. > > Can't find a definitive reference but this concurs with my recollection of a policy introduced in 2009:
http://www.redcross.org.uk/en/What-we-do/Teaching-resources/Quick-activities/999 Some people think that 999 calls can be made from a phone without a SIM. In fact, because of the high number of hoax calls, the United Kingdom decided to block emergency calls from mobile phones without a SIM card. Aled
