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106 – emergency number in Australia for textphone/TTY; 108 – emergency number in India (22 states) 110 – emergency number mainly in China, Japan, Taiwan; 111 – emergency number in New Zealand; 112 – emergency number across the European Union and on GSM mobile networks across the world; 119 – emergency number in Jamaica and parts of Asia
Before 1969, Australia did not have a national telephone number for emergency services; the police, fire and ambulance services had many telephone numbers, one for each local unit. In 1961, the Postmaster-General's Department started introducing the 000 telephone number in major population centres, and during the 1960s, extended its coverage to ...
Textphone / TTY hearing or speech impairment (106) logo. 106 Text Emergency Call, commonly known as simply 106, [1] is the Australian national emergency telephone number to be used in life-threatening or time critical situations [2] for those with a speech and / or hearing impairment who use telecommunications device for the deaf (textphone or teletypewriter (TTY)).
000 is the primary emergency telephone number in Australia. [12] Secondary emergency numbers are 106 (for use by the hearing impaired with a TTY terminal) and the international GSM mobile emergency telephone number 112.
The emergency number 999 was adopted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1959 at the urging of Stephen Juba, mayor of Winnipeg at the time. [4] The city changed the number to 911 in 1972, in order to be consistent with the newly adopted U.S. emergency number. [5] Several other countries besides the UK have adopted 999 as their emergency number.
The existing Emergency Alert Australia system, established in 2009, [3] is a location-based SMS (LB-SMS) system [4] and can also call landlines with automated alerts. [3] The system was used in the 2019-20 Black Summer Bushfires , with 492,938 landline calls and 4,194,576 text messages sent to residents in affected areas.
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