<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Consolas;
panose-1:2 11 6 9 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
h2
{mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 2 Char";
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0cm;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0cm;
font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
font-weight:bold;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0cm;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0cm;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
pre
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"HTML Preformatted Char";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";}
span.Heading2Char
{mso-style-name:"Heading 2 Char";
mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 2";
font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:#2E74B5;}
span.apple-converted-space
{mso-style-name:apple-converted-space;}
span.HTMLPreformattedChar
{mso-style-name:"HTML Preformatted Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"HTML Preformatted";
font-family:"Consolas",serif;}
span.EmailStyle23
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I attended an Emergency Warden (formerly known as Fire Warden) course a few years back, and we were advised that we should always use
000 in Australia. Apparently Telstra (and possibly other mobile providers) have to code in the mapping of 112 to 000 in each mobile tower, and there have been cases in the past where some towers did not have this coding which caused unnecessary delays in contacting
emergency services. It is probably safer to use 000 in Australia, and if you are travelling overseas, find out what the correct number is before you go.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bradley Amm<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 19 March 2016 1:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Joseph Goldman <joe@apcs.com.au><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] AusNOG Digest, Vol 49, Issue 20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">112 is used by a lot of places for their main emergency number. It's the standard number in Europe <o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">The common European emergency number is <b><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-1-2" title="1-1-2"><span style="text-decoration:none">112</span></a></span></b> (following <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_2002/22/EC" title="Directive 2002/22/EC"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Directive
2002/22/EC</span></a> – Universal Service Directive) and also standard on <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM" title="GSM"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">GSM</span></a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone" title="Mobile phone"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">mobile
phones</span></a>. 112 is used in all member states of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">European Union</span></a>, Georgia, Iceland,
Liechtenstein, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and some other countries in addition to their other emergency numbers or as the main emergency number.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_numbers">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_numbers</a><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sent from my iPad<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>
On 18 Mar 2016, at 8:10 AM, Joseph Goldman <<a href="mailto:joe@apcs.com.au">joe@apcs.com.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">No advantage to knowing it in AU over 000. It is handy to know for when abroad though:<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2 style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:4.8pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white">
<span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#CC3300">112—International standard emergency number<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:19.2pt;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255,
255);word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">Triple Zero (000) is Australia's primary telephone number to call for assistance in life threatening or time critical emergency situations. Dialling 112 directs you to the same Triple
Zero (000) call service and does not give your call priority over Triple Zero (000).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:19.2pt;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255,
255);word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">112 is an international standard emergency number which can only be dialled on a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">digital mobile
phone</span></em>. It is accepted as a secondary international emergency number in some parts of the world, including Australia, and can be dialled in areas of GSM network coverage with the call automatically translated to that country’s emergency number.
It does not require a simcard or pin number to make the call, however phone coverage must be available (any carrier) for the call to proceed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:19.2pt;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255,
255);word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">There is no advantage to dialling 112 over Triple Zero (000). Calls to 112 do not go to the head of the queue for emergency services, and it is not true that it is the only number that
will work on a mobile phone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:19.2pt;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255,
255);word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">Dialling 112 from a fixed line telephone in Australia (including payphones) will not connect you to the emergency call service as it is only available from digital mobile phones.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:19.2pt;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255,
255);word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">(<a href="http://www.triplezero.gov.au/Pages/Usingotheremergencynumbers.aspx">http://www.triplezero.gov.au/Pages/Usingotheremergencynumbers.aspx</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">On 18/03/16 10:49, Mark Andrews wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
<pre>In message <a href="mailto:CAOu9xNJNsMst_pjwFqwRsY9DEfoF1NH+f-JVqELe+1AGJv1duw@mail.gmail.com"><CAOu9xNJNsMst_pjwFqwRsY9DEfoF1NH+f-JVqELe+1AGJv1duw@mail.gmail.com></a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>, Robert Hudson writes:<o:p></o:p></pre>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
<pre>Both should work. The general population has no idea of 112 (which should<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>work in any country in the world, in any carrier).<o:p></o:p></pre>
</blockquote>
<pre>112 is taught about in lots of places. If you do a first aid course<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>you will almost certainly also be taught about 112 as part of how<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>to contact authorities to get help to you using a mobile.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>A large proportion of the Australian population knows about 112.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>Mark<o:p></o:p></pre>
</blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br>
AusNOG mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</body>
</html>