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Another top tip. If your facing out of the wind and are worried that your head might be between you and the mast, instead of turning through 180 degrees and facing the wind, put your headset to your other ear. SMS messages are carried on the same frequencies as voice but a different protocol, but like the emergency number you can transmit on both 900 and 1800MHz regardless of your service provider.
I have shared on Facebook. We all think that we will never need 999 or 112 but if we do we might remember what is said on this video and help us at a difficult time.
In this video, I state that this number will work in 70 countries, I can update this now, as all 32 of world's largest GSM providers have now replied to me. Dialling 112 will work in more than 200 countries, covering more than 5 billion people. Hope this helps :)
2. Calls in the UK are answered by BT or C&W on average within 6 seconds, longer in major incidents such as 7/7 where it reached 45 seconds, plus the phones and networks initiation of the call can add up to another 20 seconds if it latches onto another carrier, so the "wait for 1 minute" is sensible advice.
Mary, swipe your locked iphone screen for the keypad to enter your PIN, in the bottom right of your screen is the facility to make an emergency call. Mr. Brotherton, your other new video about PLB's is also exceptional, please keep up this great source of life saving videos.
Bought your book, it's as informative as is your video - good on you! Ezekia and Fincanman, different countries have different numbers for emergency texts, but they ALL use 112 for telephone calls.
Scenario: Group lost in wilderness - dense woodland - no mobile phone masts in area. Spotter plane flies over area towing a large banner which says 'For SOS: Text 112' One person in group has mobile phone and sends a text to 112 with GPS position (if possible). Plane is carrying portable 'cell phone mast transceiver' and detects signal and gets GPS position and/or direction of transmission. Plane flies to different point and gets another transmission and triangulates to find position of lost group. Plane tries to call group's mobile phone (voice or text). Better still if the banner it is towing has LEDs and then can send different messages to the group via LED banner. Even if everyone is injured (or dead), the plane should detect the periodic 'watchdog' signals from any mobile phone below (usually there will be several of them in a group)?
I didn't know any of this! Great information and potentially life saving. Have just registered my mobile with 112 and it took less than one minute to do. Thank you for getting the message across.
Christine: Simply touch the on/off key on most smartphones and the on-screen option of making an emergency call appears. Watched your new video, another excellent and well informed essential piece of information, keep up the good work.
I am a mobile phone network. Firstly, this is an excellent video, technically perfect and in my opinion essential viewing for the general public. Various queries have been posted in this thread and I will adress them: 1. Both 999 & 112 will use this unique method of connecting to any available network in the UK, however 112 is a much better number to use as this is globally recognised from America to Australia.
Thank you I decided to do this and register my telephone number I find your videos extremely interesting and very informative thank you for making them please continue to make more to educate at all I have also bought your book
Just watched your new video which is also invaluable, thanks for sharing :) "Help Me" The Secrets of using a PLB (Personal Locator Beacon) in an emergency/accident .
Might have been helpful (as he is obviously a Brit) to say that 999 does still work in the UK, in exactly the same way that he talks about 112. Registering your mobile number for the text service with 999 also reads across to 112 and (I imagine therefore) vice versa.
Increase your elevation for better signal. Move away from large objects and point your phone in the air with signal obviously up. Your head isn't going to prevent a signal unless your wearing a metal hat but pointing your phone a different way might make a difference.
Excellent video and excellent book (Ultimate Navigation Manual). You have a very straight forward way on conveying detailed information that makes it easy to understand. Thanks for sharing :)
I am not sure about the UK or rest of the world but in Australia all phones made after Jan 2002 will have the same features as 112, but for the standard emergency number(Here it is 000) so dialing 112 or 000 will give you the same result if you are out of your service provider it will roam for a tower.
After I had recorded the video BT Text Relay Product Manager informed me that the service had been expanded to incorporate 112, so I dubbed 112 at 4.15 (previously it had only been 999 - both numbers will work).
112 is also available in the US and Canada on mobile phones, it redirects to 911. 112 is part of the international GSM standard for mobile phones and sim cards.
Great video. (BTW, it could be slightly confusing to lip readers!) First time I've heard about 112. If I've already registered txt's on 999 does it automatically transfer or should I resend to 112? Many thanks.
All phones in the US (and I believe in the EU, I believe its a joint standard) have to be able to dial an Emergency number regardless of if the phone has a password or is locked...I believe Apple got in trouble for not doing this at one point. Don't worry about SIM cards, bills, registering (not sure what that means), etc. I've had to dial 112/911 on some of the most archaic systems and it worked everytime.
Ugh! I miss flip phones but you can't get a flip phone that has great apps as a touchscreen phone. I remember having those old Nokia 3310 mobiles that only allowed texts and calls and no pictures, my keypad would get knocked inside my pocket whenever I was outside walking around and it would dial 999 by mistake.
Some smart phones, including Galaxy Ace, don't seem to try to resend texts automatically after the first attempt fails. If this happens, you just hold your finger on the original message on screen & a box pops up to let you resend. Tapping the message doesn't work, you have to hold your finger on it. I was also told by a Policeman that 112 connects to local emergency services in UK & bypasses normal call centre routing, so local knowledge kicks in immediately, even if you are in a strange area
3. Areas where there is no network coverage whatsoever, from any carrier, are generally wilderness and people visiting these areas should carry other means of getting help.
Just to expand on his comment about modern smart phones. On the lock screen of my Samsung there is a link to an Emergency Dialler. As well as the ability to call either 999 or 112 without the phone needing to be unlocked there is a button for Emergency Contacts. These Emergency Contacts can be anyone from your Contact List, all you have to do is add them to the built in ICE -emergency contact group in your phones contact manager. So in the unfortunate event of me being involved in an accident not only could my phone be used to call the emergency services but it could be used to contact my nominated ICE contacts
Brilliant info in the vid - but just one thought about dialing 112 on a pin protected smart phone - how do you bring up the keyboard in the first place to dial the number if the phone is pin protected and the pin is not known?
This is a very good video one ting, I would recommend to have is a back up for the cell phone like an emergency charger. This will not charge the phone but it will allow you to make calls or receiving them when your phone battery is flat. Cell phone emergency chargers can be got off sites like Ebay cheap and they are lifesavers in an Emergency. Type in your model of cell phone and Emergency charger.
Aptitude Design: The Australian Government’s Department of Broadband, Communications & the digital Economy states that 112 can be dialled from a mobile phone and the call will be treated in the same way as the 000 call to the emergency services.
If I am stuck at the end of a Highland glen with a casualty with a compound fracture and exposure, and the only way to get in touch with the emergency services is by texting 112, then I will do so without hesitation. I will worry later about whether my phone will be deactivated.
I think Lyle was on his "micro nav" mode. There is no such technique as swapping ear with your mobile in micro nav. 180 deg is more appropriate for him!!!
All of my event PAYG phones are registered for texting 112. Simply because if something kicks off at my events, it will jam the network with 112 calls, so I need a way of quickly getting info to them whilst still operating the radio & co-ordinating the immediate response!
I thought you can only dial 999 in the uk. So you can call 112? We had an incident last night and I press the Emergency SOS button on my phone and it called 112 but than i cancelled it. What would of happened?
Just swipe and on the PIN keypad screen there is a small "emergency call" button. under the "7" and to the right of "0". I presume android has a similar screen.
ANYONE member of the public can text 999/112. Originally, it was started for people with hearing loss or speech impediments, however in November 2010, OFCOM extended this service to hill walkers, climbers and mountaineers, effectively any member of the general public, to assist in areas where mobile reception is poor. Most Police Forces make this clear, my own can be found at West Yorkshire Police Force website on the Contact Us page.
