Emergency phone number 112

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• Sep 12, 2015

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It has been mentioned a number of times that the emergency phone number in Europe is 112. It occurred to me to wonder if that would work from my Canada-based phone number, or if I'd have to add some prefix numbers. However, some googling tells me that it will work, so I thought I'd post this in case you were wondering too:

• The GSM network uses 112 as a world-wide emergency number. When 112 is dialed from a GSM phone, the network will automatically redirect you to the local emergency dispatch, if it’s available.

Good to know.

 

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• Sep 12, 2015

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Yes, useful information for wherever one is travelling.

 

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• Sep 12, 2015

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Kanga said:

Yes, useful information for wherever one is travelling.

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GSM is far from a worldwide mobile standard. The USA, Japan, a fair proportion of South America, New Zealand, etc, etc have other emergency numbers. Some carriers will download the emergency number information to your phone when you join their network, but I have not had to test this, fortunately, and have no experience of its effectiveness.

 

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• Sep 12, 2015

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There is lots of good information on emergencies in this thread:
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...on-for-women-on-the-camino.34092/#post-333671

 

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• Sep 12, 2015

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Just as an added information point....
112 will work from any mobile phone in Europe. It is not necessary to have a SIM card of any type in the phone. Thus..if you are only using your phone for Internet/WiFi and have no phone connection...it will still work for 112.