GPS emergency call standards

[Chris Samuel]

On Wednesday 18 March 2009, arne anka wrote:

> well, it fits the wet dreams of germany's current top terrorists hunter  
> (register everyone who buys a sim card) -- and there are no numbers  
> mentioned of abuse.

In 2003 our local telco monopoly released numbers show about 70% of emergency 
calls were not real - so about 7 million false calls to 000 (the Australian 
emergency number) in *Melbourne* each year.  That's getting on for 2 per head 
of population.

That includes hoaxes, mistakes, fax machines (yes, really), unlocked
mobiles pocket-dialing 000, school kids, people calling 000 to report a car 
blocking their drive because their local police station went to an answer 
phone, etc..

-- 
 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

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