gmp@rayssd.ray.COM ("Gregory M. Paris") (04/26/87)
Not too long ago, I caught the tail end of a news item (TV that is)
about emergency call boxes along some Massachusetts Interstates.
As an aside, they mentioned that you can also contact the State(?)
Police via a special dial sequence with a cellular phone. I didn't
write it down, but it was something simple like *77. Does anybody
know anything more about this? Are there more of these codes?
Seems like the phone co. should mention these things to you when
you get your cellular service, but no such list was provided for
me...
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................. People like you should not be allowed to start any fires.mgrant@MIMSY.UMD.EDU (Michael Grant) (04/30/87)
As I recal from a recent roaming experience in the Boston area, you dial 911 to get to the state police. You also get charged for this call. In the Balt/DC area, 911 from a cell phone is free. There is usually a *nnn (where nnn is the frequency of some local radio station without the decimal) that is a free call. You call it to tell the DJ about accidents or congestion, and in return, they put in a plug for the local cellular system. I believe it's *1050 in Boston, in DC it' *955. *511 in Balt/DC gets you to the local roamer port. *811 or *611 get you customer care. *394 in DC/Balt gets you a FYI, (For Your Info) recording about the cell system. Everything I'v mentioned here is for Cellular 1. I havn't used the wireline services enough to have gathered this kind of info. -Mike