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mendip_discovery:
So overwhelming that 999 isn't fully working today.

BBC News - 999 calls: Police and fire services hit by technical glitch
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66012340


--- Quote ---Many 999 calls are not connecting due to a technical fault affecting a number of police forces.

Problems with the service emerged at about 09:00 BST on Sunday.

BT runs the 999 number for emergency services and is responsible for answering and directing calls.

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MK14:

--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on June 25, 2023, 09:34:47 am ---So overwhelming that 999 isn't fully working today.

BBC News - 999 calls: Police and fire services hit by technical glitch
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66012340


--- Quote ---Many 999 calls are not connecting due to a technical fault affecting a number of police forces.

Problems with the service emerged at about 09:00 BST on Sunday.

BT runs the 999 number for emergency services and is responsible for answering and directing calls.

--- End quote ---

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As an arm-chair commentator (so to speak), on these forums.  I DON'T know what the solution(s) are going to be.  But, it has the potential to be a very serious, problem, putting some people at harm and in danger, either way.

This encroaches on another relatively modern problem.  In the 'old days', it was mainly only necessary to worry and concern oneself with your own country, in such matters.

Hence, if you could persuade people at the top of BT and/or senior government to make and implement (mandate) changes.  Problems such as these could be sorted out.

But these days, some/many things are global (world-wide).  E.g. Google and Android updates/releases.

Even the president of America, would only be able to influence/legislate Google, as regards North American territories, nowhere else.

Hence a different current thread, about issues with Amazon.

In general, we don't have world wide (ranging) laws, with a small number of exceptions, such as war crimes.

So even if I had solutions (which at this second, I don't, but it looks a fixable problem).  I'm not sure how on a world-wide basis, they could be enforced.  Short of going to lots of individual countries, the EU and maybe other entities.

mendip_discovery:
Tbh there are failures of the system from time to time. Much like when somone pushes out some error in code it takes a few hours for it to reboot and reset.

From what I know 999 cost the NHS/Police etc quite a bit as BT run it.

With the mobile phones auto dialling 999, well some will really like the feature but for some it's just another thing to go wrong. I have got to that age were knowing about up up down down wiggle left up activates the camera. The mobile phone added to the number of calls, partly as it gave greater access to it and with the old phones had physical buttons that could easily butt dial 999.

I really just think this is just the seasonal message we get to not call incase it's an emergency.

MK14:

--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on June 25, 2023, 03:42:01 pm ---I really just think this is just the seasonal message we get to not call incase it's an emergency.

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Sorry, I'll be right back, my mouse fell on the floor.

Just ringing 999 to get them to solve that emergency.

If they complain it was 'not an emergency again', I'll tell them a long story about the time when 5 much more extreme life or death, emergencies occurred, where I had to call 999, in quick succession this morning.  But don't worry, my pet ant is liking all the attention, from this morning.

mendip_discovery:

--- Quote from: MK14 on June 25, 2023, 04:35:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on June 25, 2023, 03:42:01 pm ---I really just think this is just the seasonal message we get to not call incase it's an emergency.

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Sorry, I'll be right back, my mouse fell on the floor.

Just ringing 999 to get them to solve that emergency.

If they complain it was 'not an emergency again', I'll tell them a long story about the time when 5 much more extreme life or death, emergencies occurred, where I had to call 999, in quick succession this morning.  But don't worry, my pet ant is liking all the attention, from this morning.

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I have occasional beverage with some paramedics and the tales they give of some of the 999 calls they get just make you feel Idiocracy was a documentary. One call was to collect somone and take them to A&E, they live over the road (200yrds) from the hospital and could have walked in. One winter I was being tasked to do the job of the blood bikes as it was Icy, I got asked to do a 4 hour drive to take some slippers from one hospital to the other. It maybe a free service but there are some that just take the p*ss.

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