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SMS messages can be sent to 999 after registration by sending a text message with the word 'Register' to 999. 911 redirects to 999 on mobile phones/public phonebooths [ citation needed ] and on telephones used in USAFE bases.
An emergency phone on the Welsh coast at Trefor featuring 999. (Note the keypad missing digits 4 - 0, with no instruction on how to dial 999 from this phone.) 999 is the official emergency number for the United Kingdom, but calls are also accepted on the European Union emergency number, 112.
The first digit also shows if a particular subscriber number is operated by BTC or another operator. The area codes are always cited with the trunk code. When dialing all subscriber numbers must be prefixed with trunk and area code except short codes (see below). Numbers starting with 700, 800 and 90x as well as mobile ones are prefixed by '0 ...
The first use of a national emergency telephone number began in the United Kingdom in 1937 using the number 999, which continues to this day. [6] In the United States, the first 911 service was established by the Alabama Telephone Company and the first call was made in Haleyville, Alabama, in 1968 by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite and answered by U.S. Representative Tom Bevill.
Area codes 778, 236, and 672 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of British Columbia.They form an overlay complex with area code 604, which serves only a small southwestern section, the Lower Mainland, of the province (including Vancouver), and area code 250, which serves the rest of the province.
The first emergency number system to be deployed anywhere in the world was in London on 30 June 1937 [2] [3] using the number 999, and this was later extended to cover the entire country. [2] When 999 was dialed, a buzzer sounded and a red light flashed in the exchange to attract an operator's attention. [3]
To a decade: This is a redirect from a year (or years) to to the associated decade article.Years from 1700 to 500 BCE should redirect to the relevant decade per Wikipedia:Timeline standards.
999 or triple nine most often refers to: 999 (emergency telephone number) , a telephone number for the emergency services in several countries 999 (number) , an integer