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Location Services on Emergency Mobile Calls
The UK police is work on an enhanced 999 (the local police emergency number) service for cell phones that will help the emergency services to locate people calling the emergency assistance number, eports Cellular News. Enhanced location information will mean that callers in unfamiliar surroundings can be located and reached more speedily by the Fire, Police, Ambulance or Coastguard services... More than 43 million 999 calls are made in UK each year and more than 50% of those are from mobile handsets, according to the police. |
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