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Point Perp Accidents 23/24 Feb 2014 24-Feb-2014 At 12:40:34 PM TimP

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>It used to be the case that if you were out of range of your mobile service
>provider's towers in Australia, and needed to dial emergency services,
>you would dial 112.
>
>That number would connect with another provider to make the emergency
>call. In other words, say you were with Optus and there were no Optus towers
>around. You could dial 112 and your phone would connect via a different
>provider, say Telstra, so you could make the emergency call. Like a roaming
>service for emergency calls. (Dialing 000 would only go via your provider).
>
>112 still does this. But 000 now does this too (as long as your phone
>isn't too old - newer than 2002).
>
>It's also worth noting that 112 does not work from landlines. It is for
>mobiles only.
>
In the clip he says 112 can bypass phone security and even work on phones out of credit or with no sim card. He also says you can register for text message emergency access on 112, if reception is dodgy a TXT can get through. I've also heard elsewhere the number can access a special reserve battery power. Anyway it's not the sort of thing you can muck around with just to see if it works!