12 years in the making

Pizza.

 

111 = National emergency number for New Zealand.

If you dial 112 on your mobile it'll just route it as an 'emergency
call' as it's just one of a number of shortcodes that lead to that
service.

 

Coo. The things you find out on ukrm.

Yeah, it's the EU standard. I found that one out when I was selling South
Yorkshire their 999 system.

Ali

 

Having it filled in came in useful when, on my way back from Heathrow
on the 140 bus, some bloke took my bag (ny mistake) from the luggage
rack instead of his own.[1]
In it, was a photocopy of the inside-back cover of my passport on which
my mum's contact details were printed. He phoned her to get hold of me
and he came back to Harrow to give me my bag back. His bag, meantime,
had gone on it's merry way to the bus station.

[1] Both similar, blue holdalls.

 

And on that theme: I always put a couple of business cards inside my
suitcase, as well as the outside labels. I've had the handle with label
almost detached from a case before now, and at least the internal ID gives
some hope that I might get the thing back.

Nice chap, the other bloke, eh?

Ali

 

Alison Hopkins wrote:
[snip taile of returned luggage]

He was. We had quite a nice chat about our respective trips when we
met up for him to return my bag.

It was a bit bizarre for my mum, though. Having a strong-accented
African guy phone her on a Monday morning left her a little confused.
I think it was his third attempt, after she had put the phone down on
him twice that he finally got through to her what had happened.

 

BGN ha escrito:

"Post '<name> down' to news:uk.rec.motorcycles"

 

Alison Hopkins says...

I am happy to say that the South Yorks 999 system works wonderfully, as
I found out a few years ago when I smashed up my daughter's VFR400 NC30
just outside Sheffield.

 

Oops on the latter and kewl on the former. It went live finally in late
2003/early 2004, as I recall. I watch the Police action type shows from SYP
with a certain parental glow. <grin>

Ali

 

Alison Hopkins says...

I had my accident before then.

 

The full quote in someone's .sig in rec.motorcycles[IIRC] 10 or 15
years ago was summat like, "If in doubt, accelerate. It may not solve the
problem but it cuts the waiting time."[2]

[IIRC] If I recall correctly...
[2] Although my favourite .sigquote is attributed to Mark Twain:
"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

If you dial 112, 999 or 911 on almost any mobile it'll be setup as an
'emergency call' using a special call setup process; the mobile says "I
want to make an emergence call" and the system routes it to the
emergency operator; there's no number transmitted from the mobile to the
network as such.

With more recent mobiles and SIMs the SIM card contains all of the odd
numbers like 111, 008, 113 etc. in a specific file, the phone uses this
file to understand which calls are emergency ones and then uses the
special setup procedure.

With older mobiles (say, more than 18 months or so) the phone would dial
111,008, 113 as a normal number, once received by the system then the
system would interpret as an emergency call.

I could go on...

 

If the network is 'full' and cannot squeeze another call in then an
Emergency Call would cause the network to bump someone else off of
their call so you could pinch their space (uk.telecom.mobile)

 

"I read it on the internet, it must be true"

When I start telling you how to book plane tickets you can tell me about
comms networks, dear.

 

I'm a bigger bitch than you'll ever be, dear.

 

How do you know that? Can you cite another newsgroup as a source for
this statement as well?

 

Well, from memory they're designed to minimise interference between
users in a WCDMA network. Umm, I think there are a limited number of
them and stuff. They're used as spreading codes.

That's about as much as I can remember off the top of my head. I'm more
operational than design really.

 

W0 - W63. Keep going...

Don't give up now. It's ukrm, you don't actually have to know this shit.

 

I used to work for the company that designed and patented CDMA/CA.

Ali