Mobile phone tips in an emergency

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Just been on a first aid course, picked up some useful mobile phone tips I hadn't heard of.

Use 112 from your mobile to call the emergency services rather than 999, using 112 triangulates your position to within 5 metres.

Send a single word text 'register' to 112, you'll receive a reply, reply back 'yes' you'll now be registered to text 112 in an emergency, useful if in poor signal area that a call will fail but a text will still send.

If you ever need to call the emergency services but can't speak for any reason they may think it's a 'pocket dial' if you can't speak press 55 on your phones keypad, this generates 'caller under duress' message with the call operator.

[Styx]

Just been on a first aid course, picked up some useful mobile phone tips I hadn't heard of.




Use 112 from your mobile to call the emergency services rather than 999, using 112 triangulates your position to within 5 metres.




Send a single word text 'register' to 112, you'll receive a reply, reply back 'yes' you'll now be registered to text 112 in an emergency, useful if in poor signal area that a call will fail but a text will still send.




If you ever need to call the emergency services but can't speak for any reason they may think it's a 'pocket dial' if you can't speak press 55 on your phones keypad, this generates 'caller under duress' message with the call operator.

You learn something new every day, so they say.

Thank you for your very informative post.

[grassroots]

Just been on a first aid course, picked up some useful mobile phone tips I hadn't heard of.

Use 112 from your mobile to call the emergency services rather than 999, using 112 triangulates your position to within 5 metres.

Send a single word text 'register' to 112, you'll receive a reply, reply back 'yes' you'll now be registered to text 112 in an emergency, useful if in poor signal area that a call will fail but a text will still send.

If you ever need to call the emergency services but can't speak for any reason they may think it's a 'pocket dial' if you can't speak press 55 on your phones keypad, this generates 'caller under duress' message with the call operator.

Thank you for the info.