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Coast guard – 118; [50] Information about emergencies – #7119 free call; ... Dialing 000 and 999 plays a pre-recorded message advising ... 000 – emergency ...
On some networks, a GSM phone without a SIM card may be used to make emergency calls, and most GSM phones accept a larger list of emergency numbers without SIM card, such as 112, 911, 118, 119, 000, 110, 08, and 999. [27] However, some GSM networks will not accept emergency calls from phones without a SIM card.
000 was also the emergency telephone number in Denmark and Finland until the introduction of the 112 number in 1993, and in Norway until 1986, when the emergency telephone numbers diverted to 001 for fire brigade, 002 for police and 003 for ambulance. Those Norwegian emergency telephone numbers changed in 1994 to 110, 112 and 113 respectively.
999 is the official emergency number for the United Kingdom, but calls are also accepted on the European Union emergency number, 112. All calls are answered by 999 operators, and are always free. [2] Approximately 35 million 999/112 calls are made in the UK each year, with 74% from mobiles and 26% from landlines in 2022. [3]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Number range Operator 71 000 000 – 71 999 999: Mascom Wireless 74 000 000 – 74 299 999
A closed numbering plan, as found in North America, features fixed-length area codes and local numbers, while an open numbering plan has a variance in the length of the area code, local number, or both of a telephone number assigned to a subscriber line. The latter type developed predominantly in Europe.
In Hungary, telephone numbers are in the format 06 + area code + subscriber number, where the area code is a single digit 1 for Budapest, the capital, followed by a seven digit subscriber number, and two digits followed by either seven (for cell phone numbers) or six digits (others). for other areas, cell phone numbers or non-geographic numbers ...
There are 5 numbers in the UK that I know of capable of connecting you to the emergency operator. 112 (the European number), 100 (999 is just a priority line to the operator), 999 itself, 998 (used for vehicle telematics), and a 5 digit engineers number that I cannot recall off hand.