Chester County's new 'text to 911' system |
By EMS Lieutenant Michelle Martin | |
April 13, 2015 | |
The Chester County Board of Commissioners and the Chester County Department of Emergency Services, today launched Text-to-9-1-1 services. Text-to-9-1-1 is a service for emergency situations when calling 9-1-1 is not possible. AT&T, Sprint and Verizon customers have the service available to them now; T-Mobile and MetroPCS customers will have the services in the very near future. post card front.jpg Here are some facts about Text-to-9-1-1; How to text 9-1-1 in an emergency: Below are a few things to know if you need to text 9-1-1: • Text location information is not equal to current location technology. This means when calling 9-1-1, your cell phone connects to the closest cell tower and your handset (your cell phone) location is sent to 9-1-1. When using Text-to-9-1-1, your cell phone connects to the closest cell tower and the cell tower location is sent to 9-1-1. This means we will know what cell tower you are texting from but we won't know where you are. |
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