Injured, on fire, or under fire citizens can now text the emergency services in a new pilot program in the US.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said that it had selected a number of (primarily rural) areas to trial the service, in which citizens can send texts to 911 in order to notify police and fire departments of emergency situations.
The service, which has been in the works for years, will be trialed with AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile networks in areas where call centers have been equipped to receive the SMS calls. Users in areas which do not yet have text-to-911 enabled will send bounce-back messages. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/15/omg_fcc_trials_textto911_service/
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