On Jan 21, 2012, at 8:34 PM, G Scott Walters wrote: > Ryan may be on to something. > https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=403.025&year=2011&keyword_type=all&keyword=Emergency+phone+service > > Subdivision three of statute 403.025 states: > Subd. 3.Connected telecommunications service provider requirements.Every owner and operator of a wire-line or wireless circuit switched or packet-based telecommunications system connected to the public switched telephone network shall design and maintain the system to dial the 911 number without charge to the caller. > > > That seems to at least infer that I should be able to disconnect my line and still be able to dial 911 in an emergency. Yes, this means cell phones also must be capable of dialing 911 without a valid phone number. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120121/52a987a8/attachment.html>