EU-wide emergency phone number not well known
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Travelers in all the European Union's  27 member countries can call the same emergency telephone  number -- but many of them don't know what it is.
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To locate emergency calls made over mobile VoIP phones, company used several location-finding technologies, such as GPS, a technology that triangulates high-definition television signals and one that surveys local Wi-Fi access points.
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E-mail, text message or cellphone call? Making contact can be an adventure.
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By Robert Lopez, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Sep. 10--The call came on Tuesday. I looked at the caller ID and saw an unfamiliar area code and assumed it was a West Coast publicity agent returning a call for one of several entertainment stories I was working on.
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About a hundred times a day, from anywhere in the world, a phone call comes in that sounds something like this: I think I've got a terrorist suspect here, can you check it out?
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Everyone asks for it. Few actually need it -- as a TIME reporter found out after an hour-and-a-half telephone ordeal
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Direct dial phone calls from Ireland to 13 other countries are to be blocked because of an internet fraud. Hundreds of Irish phone users have run up large bills due to auto-dialling fraud or modem hijacking.
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A Romanian man&#39;s had a reply from the country&#39;s state phone company 28 years after asking them to install a phone. Gheorghe Titianu from the northern town of Suceava said he was delighted when he saw the letter. However, the letter was simply ...
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Emergency calls for ambulances are up by a fifth in some areas, figures obtained by the BBC suggest.
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Want to report war crimes fugitives, white-slavers, illegal weapons, car thieves or corrupt professors? Just dial the 0800 number of one of Bosnia's many hotlines.
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The EU judge in the case against Microsoft calls for an unexpected closed-door meeting. Also: Developing world expected to help revive tech sector....  Finland faces a loss of 3G phones.... and more.
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As call levels return to normal, the ambulance service says its 'special emergency' status is no longer in place.
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British telephone users now have a new code prefix - 056 - for VoIP numbers with cyberspace locations. The United Kingdom&#39;s media and telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has released plans to help the take
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A proposed law would require companies to keep detailed data about peopleâs Internet and phone use that goes beyond a European Union directive.
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TEXT message language will be used in a new Government campaign to tackle mobile phone theft.   The Home Office is asking "r u getting the msg?" in a pounds 500,000 campaign to tell youngsters that stolen handsets will be blocked from all networks within 48 hours of being reported lost.
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Bill and Ted's Bogus Green Paper The European Commission has announced a review of the regulations that compel telcos to provide public call boxes that could lead to them being scrapped.â¦
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Telecom industry regulator, Ofcom, states that broadband phone users will now be given an 11-digit phone number to replace their existing phone number in order to accomodate the emerging market for VoIP services.