#emergencycalls — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #emergencycalls, aggregated by home.social.
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I’ve been seeing some confusion (and some misinformation) around the whole Samsung Phones/000 Emergency calls issue in Australia, so I wrote up a quick explainer (and shot a video) covering what you need to know to keep yourself safe. Hopefully it helps someone.
#Samsung #Australia #EmergencyCalls
https://alexreviewstech.com/000-calls-and-samsung-phones-whats-going-on/
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🚨🤖 Oopsie-doodle! It seems like Australian #telcos can't tell the difference between blocking a #DDoS attack and cutting off life-saving emergency calls. Maybe next time they should upgrade their brain cells instead of their firewalls. 💻🔨
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/21/optus_emergency_call_incident/ #OopsieDoodle #EmergencyCalls #TechFails #Australia #HackerNews #ngated -
Australian telco cut off emergency calls, firewall upgrade linked to 3 deaths
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/21/optus_emergency_call_incident/
#HackerNews #AustralianTelco #EmergencyCalls #FirewallUpgrade #3Deaths #PublicSafety
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Ofcom hits BT with £17.5M fine over emergency call system failure http://dlvr.it/T9whmh #bt #connectivity #emergencycalls #Europe
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#BT fined more than £17m over ‘catastrophic’ #999 call failure
System missed 14,000 #EmergencyCalls after technical faults caused nearly 11 hours of disruption last summer
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/22/bt-fined-999-call-failure-emergency-technical-faults
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Law enforcement agencies in Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota and Texas reported temporary outages to 911 services before saying hours later that services had been restored. It was not immediately clear what caused the outages or whether they were related.
#News #Texas #911Outages #EmergencyCalls #LawEnforcement #TexasLawEnforcement
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A bug in Android 10 and above and Microsoft Teams could cause the phone to crash when making an emergency call. This post shows how the problem occurred, how to mitigate it for now, and how to check if other apps might cause a similar problem.