Region
The first region, and the anchor for Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Everything else was brought up against what this one proved.
What runs here
Emergency calling
Recognising an emergency number is not the same as reaching a dispatcher. Where no certified provider is contracted, the call is refused with a reason rather than attempted and lost.
Region
African traffic is anchored in Europe, and that is a decision rather than an oversight. Egress to Africa is billed at several times the European rate and infrastructure there is thin, so the trade is tens of milliseconds against a large multiple on every gigabyte.
What runs here
Emergency calling
Recognising an emergency number is not the same as reaching a dispatcher. Where no certified provider is contracted, the call is refused with a reason rather than attempted and lost.
Region
Configured and not yet serving. The hosts below are reserved; until the region is turned on, traffic for Asia is anchored in the nearest healthy one.
What runs here
Emergency calling
Recognising an emergency number is not the same as reaching a dispatcher. Where no certified provider is contracted, the call is refused with a reason rather than attempted and lost.
Region
Configured and not yet serving. The hosts below are reserved; until the region is turned on, traffic for North America is anchored in the nearest healthy one.
What runs here
Emergency calling
Recognising an emergency number is not the same as reaching a dispatcher. Where no certified provider is contracted, the call is refused with a reason rather than attempted and lost.
Region
Configured and not yet serving. The hosts below are reserved; until the region is turned on, traffic for Latin America is anchored in the nearest healthy one.
What runs here
Emergency calling
Recognising an emergency number is not the same as reaching a dispatcher. Where no certified provider is contracted, the call is refused with a reason rather than attempted and lost.
Conversations about carrying conversations: telephony, and building on it.
No episodes, and no trailer pretending to be one. When there is something to say at length — why emergency calling is hard, what a carrier actually charges for, what we got wrong — it will be here, with a feed you can take to whatever you listen in.
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