112 Vs 911

[Sir Og]

BTW this evening on the news I saw that the EU is going to penalize Bulgaria for not managing to implement 112 nationwide in time. We were supposed to have operational 112 number for the country at the beginning of 2007 but today the number is operational in Sofia only.
We used to have 160, 150, 166 for police, medical emergencies, and fire department.

[Barnabas]

The Buenos Aires Police now uses 911 because everybody knows 911 from the movies, but no one knew the one we used here

[Heraclitus]

Isn't 112 like from the early nineties? And it works in the US too, so eh I don't see why VetLegion is complaining about it? What do you want to keep the number you have now? It makes little difference whether the EU would have used the US one or got its own. It does make sense for all EU countries to have the same one, cause of the open borders and all.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Barnabas
The Buenos Aires Police now uses 911 because everybody knows 911 from the movies, but no one knew the one we used here

The wonders of globalisation.

[Barnabas]

It used to be 101

[Heraclitus]

Anyhow the Russians (will in 2008) or French would have never signed on to it + the Germans already used it.

[Heraclitus]

BTW What's this about unfalmiarity?

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Heraclitus
BTW What's this about unfalmiarity?

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Barnabas
The Buenos Aires Police now uses 911 because everybody knows 911 from the movies, but no one knew the one we used here

Yes, as I said, US media PWN all. Might as well take advantage of that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-1-1

An example of this is Uruguay, where the emergency number was traditionally 999, but was changed to 911 in 2001 after many cases where people dialed 911 instead of 999 during an emergency. This was due to the popularity in the country of US television programs and movies which routinely mention 911 as the emergency number to dial.

[Heraclitus]

Europe is not Uruguay

I never mind a bit of Shatner but I never wached that Rescue 911 stuff.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Barnabas
It used to be 101

That's what India uses (100, 101, 102 depending on whether you want teh police, fire dept., or an ambulance).

[Henrik]

This is old news we changed to 112 during the early 90s I think... Anyway I recall hearing that 911 and 112 both work currently, both in europe and the US.

Sweden's old number was 90 000 btw...

[Solver]

Used to have 01, 02, 03 and 04 for firefighters, police, ambulance and gas respectively. Switched to 112 9 or 10 years ago, although the old numbers may still be operational. They were some time ago.

This is a clear case of where people should just set up multiple numbers. Ideally, you'd move towards the same number for the world (and 911 is probably better because of its popularity right now), but gee, it's no technological challenge to make 112 and 911 both work. Setting crucial systems up differently just for the sake of being different is

[Heraclitus]

I think the one that has more people 10 years from now should go global and the other one should still be valid.

[Heraclitus]

BTW People are neglecting my point. Countries wouldn't have accepted 911 just cause its rational, they would have kept their own numbers. Stupid, but it would have happened.