Comment by jacquesm
5 months ago
SIM cards don't 'call 911', you can call 911 even if there is no SIM card at all, all you need is a working radio.
5 months ago
SIM cards don't 'call 911', you can call 911 even if there is no SIM card at all, all you need is a working radio.
I wouldn’t be too surprised if the hardware vendors had the bare minimum of ethics to prevent that.
But that would mean someone who needed to call 911 couldn't - maybe their prepaid service ran out yesterday? It would be entirely ethical to allow anyone with working hardware who needed to call during an emergency to do so, and unethical to prevent people from calling because they didn't have a working SIM.
I think the intention is that any gray-market VoIP termination running over one of these is already blocking such calls. People usually don’t need to call 9-1-1 internationally, and there is some auto-enabled tracking in some countries for 911 calls that could leak the sim farm’s location.
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