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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:58:00 -0400
- From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: 112 (was 911 Emergency Service Instead of 999)
- Message-ID: <telecom12.713.13@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 713, Message 13 of 16
- Lines: 15
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- Laurence Chiu (lchiu@animal.gcs.co.NZ, emphasis added) writes:
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- > How can 112 be any easier to misdial than another number
- > sequence like 445 or 779?
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- In New Zealand, it isn't. In almost all of the rest of the world, 112
- has only four dial-pulses, and could be generated accidentally by
- interfering with the motion of a rotary dial, or merely by flashing
- the hook. In New Zealand, 998 would be a bad choice for the same
- reason.
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- Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com
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