Reply to post: Re: Mobile as the emergency option?

BT pushes ahead with plans to switch off telephone network

John Robson Silver badge

Re: Mobile as the emergency option?

>you don't get location information from mobile

Networks have always provided an area ID based on the cell the phone is connected to.

Area ID isn't a house though.

and given the response from the emergency services when I have phoned them from my mobile - they get absolutely no location data at all...

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