Saturday, Jun 25, 2011 at 14:43
Mike the 000 assistance is not localised. Even if you call 000 from a land line, the first thing you are asked is what state are you in. The 000 call center is Australia wide as per snoopyone's post. You are then put through to the localstate fire ploice ambulance etc as appropriate.
2)You can be approximately located by the Iridium Satellite service.There are 7 locating zones in Australia roughly equating to each state plus NT, with 2 zones for WA, dividing it roughly in a line from
Carnarvon to the
Surveyor Generals Corner, and a single one for Tas and Vic inc Bass Straight.
If you use an Iridium resale service such as TRtecom etc etc etc this information is not passed on. But if you use a Telstra SIM then Telstra know this and even use it so you can dial a local number without the area code. Eg if you are in Victoria somewhere, you can call a
Melbourne land line without the 03 area code and it knows to call locally.
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