Infrastructure SNAFU results in French public being unable to contact emergency services

A technical issue with French mobile provider Orange, fixed early this morning, resulted in members of the public being temporarily unable to contact the emergency services. At least one man is believed to have died during the outage, though a link cannot be confirmed, according to France's Minister of the Interior Gérald …

[Cybersaber]

They should have used

0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

[Asylum_visitor]

Came here to see if anyone posted this, was not disappointed. Thank you :)

[Intractable Potsherd]

Graham Linehan can be prescient!

[man_iii]

Sacre bleu err orange?

What national emergency helpline gets overwhelmed during a global emergency ehmm pandemic ? Give them a break as this cant be the only lonely case.

[Dr_N]

Jail time

People have died. There will be jail sentences for those found responsible.

[N2]

Re: Jail time

Unless its senior management, in which case some one else will face the guillotine.

[Dr_N]

Re: Jail time

Check what happened to the head of the Blood Service in France after the HIV contaminated blood scandal.

[Claptrap314]

This is why

you need seven fire walls. Six just isn't enough sometimes.

[seven of five]

112 in all of Europe? No, not all of Europe...

"These are in addition to the standard 112 number, which is used across Europe."

JFTR, in case you may need this (though you probably won't remember then):

In Switzerland you can dial 112, but will have to further specify whom you want to reach. 117 is the direct number for the police, 118 call the firefighters and

144 will reach the ambulance. 1414 mountain rescue (REGA)

iirc, 117 and 118 are alias for 112.

[drand]

Re: 112 in all of Europe? No, not all of Europe...

Depends what you mean by Europe: EU members & ex-members, EEA, continental land mass.

While I'm at it, the French predilection for expressing phone numbers in groups of two does my head in. It's like storing bytes in 32-bit words.

[Dr_N]

Re: 112 in all of Europe? No, not all of Europe...

112 is part of the GSM standard so only applied to mobile networks to begin with.

The EU and other countries then adopted it for fixed lines too.

[EnviableOne]

another reason to keep Airwave

the UK are moving to a GSM based communications network (based on EE formerly part owned by orange)

currently tehy use a standalone radio based system form motorolla that is considerably cheaper and more reliable.

[sixit]

SNAG, not SNAFU

SNAFU isn't a noun, but SNAG is. In fact, SNAFU is an acronym: S.N.A.F.U.