Follow up on calling emergency numbers from the isatphone

On which system.

Iridium of course.

Of course it does but the subject is about isatphones on which you cant dial either.

Ive just read the whole article, that's hardly an example of an emergency, a flat. I think most people would be happy to make what ever calls needed to organise a replacement jack, that's an inconvienence not an emergency.
Injury, illness etc are what concern outback travellers, this is why 000/112 emergency acces is so important.
MM

Good luck. Even in the Victorian high country police stations can be unmanned for days at a time, particularly if in a small town. Depends on what the local bloke is doing.

The outback is no different, and possibly more likely for the local station to be unmanned for even longer given the duration of some of their jobs.

If you ring many places you first get a recorded message saying if your call is in relation to an emergency, hang up & dial 000, before you even get put through to the local branch number.

The reason you have a central number (ie 000 or 112) is so that you get put through to the central control point where the relevant agency's operations centre controls the incident (whatever it is) and they are in direct pager/radio contact with the paramedic/police/fire or what ever other resource you are in need of.

Any phone that can't call one or both of those numbers shouldn't be considered suitable for a backup device for use in an emergency.

I travel with a Satphone (9505) and a HF, but if I had a choice of one or the other I'd still take the HF over the Satphone.

Dave
(Paramedic & formerly Paramedic Communications Officer)