Talk:112 (emergency telephone number)

112 in Costa Rica

In Costa Rica the 112 is used to get the current time. If dialed from a fixed phone or a public phone you'll get the time information but if dialed from a cellphone, the cellphone well dial to the emergency number from the network which is 911. If you want to get the time from a cellphone you have to dial *112 instead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.147.117.11 (talk) 12:57, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

112 in the US

This works in the US? Cite, please. (unsigned comment by 213.253.39.99)

I saw it in http://www.viennababiesclub.com/cj/Medical%20Information.doc (unsigned comment by user:Chris Q)

Questions:

• Is this part of the GSM standard?
• Or some other ITU
• Who handles the call routing? (unsigned comment by 213.253.39.99)

It is part of the GSM standard, the rest I don't know (unsigned comment by user:Chris Q)

well like any other short numer dialed from a mobile the mobile service is going to have to route it. Since they will already be doing that for the local emergency number i can't see any reason it would be hard to make 112 go to the same place over the same system. Plugwash

112 is recommended for all telephone networks world-wide by an ITU standard and required for all GSM networks by the GSM standard. In addition to that, the European Union requires 112 for all networks. I think the routing is implemented by the network. If you dial 112 let's say in the UK, your network will route the call to 999. Now I got a question: Can I dial 112 on a US GSM network or not? This article (112) says I can't but the emergency telephone number article says I can which is a contradiction. -- 79.238.162.83 (talk) 20:51, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Update: Nothing in this article supports this claim, it should be cited or removed. The citation to U of Oklahoma doesn't even mention 112. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.193.197.230 (talk) 08:03, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

GSM

The GSM mobile phone standard designates 1-1-2 as an emergency number, so it will work on such systems even in North America where it redirects to 9-1-1.

Routing 112 to the local emergency number would of course be no problem in countries where there's one emergency number for all situations, such as the USA, Hong Kong or Australia, but what about countries with several different emergency numbers? For example, Japan has three numbers:

• 110 - Police
• 118 - Coast guard
• 119 - Fire brigade (and ambulances, which are handled by the fire brigade -- thus all ambulances and ambulance workers' clothes are marked with the Japanese word for "fire brigade")

I can't see how a single number could be routed to all three services. Is it routed to just one of them (and if so, which one), or is it routed to some other service, asking which kind of emergency service you need? I know that GSM isn't used by Japanese mobile phone providers for their usual services, but some providers (such as NTT Everywhere) still offer roaming services using GSM for foreign visitors. (Stefan2 18:22, 24 July 2007 (UTC))

The simplest thing to do, would be to let it connect to the police say, and hope that whoever takes the call will be smart enough to reroute it if the caller says ‘my house is on fire’. If I recall correctly, that's what's done in Italy, although it's been some years so I'm not sure. Shinobu (talk) 11:42, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Funny, I looked it up, and in my home country (the Netherlands) where there is only one emergency number, this is actually the way they implemented it. You call up the number, this gets rerouted to the appropriate alarm centre, which is usually the police call centre. You tell them what's going on and the one who takes the call decides based on your description what emergency services to send and how much personel is needed. Shinobu (talk) 11:54, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Same here in Germany. 112 has always been the number of the fire department. Now our fire departments have to take police and medical emergencies as well and reroute them - The police can still be called directly by dialling 110. -- 79.238.162.83 (talk) 20:47, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

W-h-y 1-1-2?

Why is the title of this page "1-1-2" rather than "112" or e.g. "112 (emergency number)"?

The correct way to present the number is simply 112.

85.77.224.160 (talk) 18:38, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree- it should be called 112. It's never written with the hyphens in. KillerKat (talk) 18:02, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

In case you don't know: you can rename a page using the Move tab. Oh, and 112 is not a feasible destination since it's Wikipedia's general policy that bare numbers without qualifiers refer to years. Shinobu (talk) 11:36, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

So make it 112 (emergency number). I don't have a hyphen key on my phone. And I don't have a Move tab because I'm an AC, or an IP as they call us here.--87.162.44.52 (talk) 16:05, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Important Facts

This article doesnt mention some important facts such as: You can dial 112 when you have no coverage on your provider network but can see another provider network Many GSM handsets have 112 built into the firmware so you don't even need a sim card. http://www.acma.gov.au/acmainterwr/consumer_info/112.pdf provides some information on this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by EH Holden 1964 (talk • contribs) 04:30, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

This can vary from place to place. The GSM standard requires the phone to attempt a 112 call over whatever network it can find, even without a SIM being present, but not every network in every country will accept such calls. 87.113.176.128 (talk) 17:16, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

What if you cannot talk?

What if you need to dial the emergency number, but you cannot talk, and possibly not see the keypad and screen? I'm asking this question here, after reading the following BBC article: When are silent 999 calls cut off? It mentions that in the UK you can dial 55 after calling 999, and if 112 gets rerouted to 999, I assume that would work for 112 as well. But does this work in other countries as well? One of the commenters on the aricle mentions that the mounties have an investigate every call policy? How are these things done internationally? Shinobu (talk) 11:30, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

9112

9112 could be used worldwide, in all the countries. --147.84.132.44 (talk) 07:22, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

That is not true. In Sweden for example (probably in lots of other European countries as well), numbers starting with 911 are normal subscriber numbers. Boivie (talk) 10:52, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

This doesn't have to be true. Such conflicting numbers could be changed and then, the numbering area would be free. In addition to that, some places have left 911 unassigned. I live in Germany and I have tried calling 911 in several area codes. Result: Several area codes gave me a "No line under this number" announcement just after dialling the second 1 in 911. -- 79.238.162.83 (talk) 20:43, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Practically any number COULD be used worldwide, if all the countries in which the chosen number currently conflicts with an existing use were to change their numbering plan to accommodate it. But there's no need for that, and it would serve little practical purpose. 87.112.10.148 (talk) 12:42, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

112 use in the United States and technology that eases user interaction; i.e. Gevey Sim "Turbo Sim"

The current paragraph does not seem relevant to the legality of the Gevey Sim Card which incorporates the dialing of 112, an emergency number. The paragraph talks about the legality of jailbreaking or unlocking, which was made clear by the DMCA decision. However that decision is not relevant to a device whose activation requires dialing 112. The paragraph should be written to establish, what areas is 112 is an emergency number? what are the penalties for dialing an emergency number and hanging up? Would the Gevey sim activation process, where you dial the number 112 then hang up after two seconds, fall within any prohibited activity? 98.159.80.213 (talk) 20:25, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

This was resolved by edit #422333891. Martin Kealey (talk) 09:03, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

GSM phones that do not accept 112

Alledgedly GSM phones sold in Singapore do not support the dailing of 112 as an emergency number, even when it is included on the SIM as an emergency number^{source article}. I thought it would be interesting to include it in this article, but the source article does not list any sources for this claim. Can anyone find proper documentation about it? 83.128.29.38 (talk) 19:05, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Pulse Dialing 112

On telephone systems that support pulse dialing it is possible to "dial" 112 without using the keys or dial by briefly depressing the receiver hook. As the article already states, this can happen by accident (effectively dialing a "1"), but it is also possible to dial a "2" by sending two short impulses. It becomes increasingly difficult to dial higher numbers this way ("9" is practically impossible) but 1s and 2s are doable. To my knowledge this was one of the reasons to chose this number in the first place (but I don't have a reference for it). 158.169.40.7 (talk) 13:10, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Alongside vs Redirects

This seems like a difference without a difference, and without any technical justification.

Any short-code number is subject to routing to reach a nearby PSAP; to say that "112 redirects to 911" (or 000) is missing the point, they both get routed to the same PSAP. Martin Kealey (talk) 21:08, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 20 June 2016

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: NOT MOVED - withdrawn by nominator. ✉cookiemonster✉ ^𝚨755𝛀 22:52, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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112 (emergency telephone number) → 1-1-2 – per WP:NATURAL and WP:CONSISTENCY with 9-1-1. 1-1-2 already redirects here. ✉cookiemonster✉ ^𝚨755𝛀 18:44, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

• Oppose It's unnatural to write it with dashes and WP:CONSISTENCY with 999 (emergency telephone number). Timrollpickering (talk) 19:26, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

• Oppose - No need to "Americanize" it - 112 is standard everywhere and I'm assuming the only country that prefers dashes in everything is the yanks. Anyway not needed. –Davey2010^Talk 22:11, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

"Americanize" it... now that's a new one ;) you do have a point, so I am gonna close this up :P ✉cookiemonster✉ ^𝚨755𝛀 22:52, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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EGEA

This whole section lacks references, and is unnecessarily verbose.

From what I can find elsewhere [1], it seems that the EGEA was always a subcommittee of the European Commission's Communications Committee (COCOM). As such, whether it is disbanded or reconstituted would be decision of the COCOM, not of the Commission. I would suppose that the Commission directed COCOM to "create a unified 112 service" in or about 2004, but it seems unlikely that they would have been as specific as saying "create a subcommittee".

Does anyone have some actual references for this? Martin Kealey (talk) 08:51, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

nearly all

Article says it works in "nearly all" EU countries. Which ones don't accept it? I think none? ≈≈≈ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.193.42 (talk) 08:32, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Reverse 112 part of USA's EAS system?

Emergency Alert System uses this for Imminent threats towards people in a specific region (in theory).. or so i swear I've read it at the FCC Web page but i can't locate the reference now. Encase some has time to burn 24.19.141.129 (talk) 06:46, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Police 111 105 emergency 2407:7000:96E4:D101:0:0:0:1005 (talk) 08:29, 18 August 2023 (UTC)