belleville.com — "Patricia Michaels, a supervisor at the St. Clair County emergency dispatch center, answered the call from a woman who claimed her husband had beaten her, cut off her hair with scissors and used the scissors to cut her arm. But the caller was phoning from her residence in Seoul, South Korea!" Even more impressive - they were able to help her!
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bromanMar 30, 2007
I can just see the look on the EMTs faces when Google maps tells them to swim across the Pacific.
sperlockMar 30, 2007
I'm sure she preferred that number to dialing 0118 999 881 999 119 7253 for the UK's replacement emergency phone number. ;) (See <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYK1eLPdIc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYK1eLPdIc</a> if you don't get it!)
tanishhMar 30, 2007
Definately not me...I utterly loathe that song. Doesn't help that when I was watching TV a relatively large amount of the time in Colorado while skiing, it seemed like half the commercials were Vonage.
Closed AccountMar 30, 2007
I took my vonage with me to Shanghai last year. It actually worked very well with the exception of the connection being forced closed every 15 minutes probably by The Great Firewall. I went to update the E911 just to see if I could, but couldn't specify an address outside of the US.
Closed AccountMar 30, 2007
BREAAAKING
ponosochegMay 12, 2007
Wow! I can't really believe it, south korea is too far away from here...
sharly2007Oct 8, 2007
For those of you who don't know, Vonage forwards 911 calls to the closest PSAP. All PSAPs have regular 10-digit telephone numbers as well as "911". So this "amazing" phone call was just like any other on any VoIP service provider, except when she dialed 911 it routed to the PSAP at their last registered address based on a simple lookup table. It was delivered through the normal telephone network (from Vonage's systems) just like any other phone call. Yes, the first leg was VoIP, but many call legs are VoIP and people don't even realize it. <a class="user" href="http://www.gwafi.com/home.html">http://www.gwafi.com/home.html</a> <a class="user" href="http://www.gwafi.com/links.html">http://www.gwafi.com/links.html</a>