using a FreeRunner without cellular service
Christ van Willegen
cvwillegen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 11:36:30 CEST 2009
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Nicola Mfb<nicola.mfb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Rask Ingemann
> Lambertsen<ccc94453 at vip.cybercity.dk> wrote:
> [...]
>> Then it won't be turned on. Additionally, without a SIM
>> card, the GSM modem will refuse to turn on the transmitter and receiver.
>
> Uh! I really missed that! so not emergency call with no sim?
Strange, I thought that it _is_ possible to do an emergency phone call
without a SIM card installed!
Wikipedia tells me
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_telephone_number) that _some_
GSM networks don't accept emergency calls without a SIM, but
apparently this is a network option, not a GSM modem option.
Christ van Willegen
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