Mark Brader wrote:
David FitzGerald:

112 is the international standard emergency number. It works almost
anywhere in the world. ...


My understanding is that it is only a European standard. I'm confident
enough that it doesn't work here to try it -- and I've just confirmed
that it doesn't.

That's odd - it says in one-inch high letters in my printed BT Phone
Book, delivered last week "IN AN EMERGENCY DIAL 999 OR 112".


If you can cite anything official saying that it is
a world standard, I'd be interested to see it.

Martin Underwood:

Has Europe always just had 112?


Certainly not. I think it was a new innovation about 10-15 years ago.

When I was in France (1o years ago), they had (IIRC) 14, 15 and 16 for
different emergency services. (I always wondered how I'd remember which
was which in an emergency.)