When a person in the UK needs help, they dial 999 and reach a trained dispatcher–unless they’re out of range of their registered carrier. That’s because since the mid-1990 the British Office of Communications (Ofcomm) has turned off so-called 999 “roaming” in response to a high number of hoax and nuisance calls. Now the Ofcomm is proposing to turn the roaming service back on to insure that all 999 callers reach a dispatcher, no matter which network is available. In a report (pdf) on “Access and Inclusion,” the Ofcomm says the service could be implemented by the end of this year.
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