Calling 911: How to do this without a TTY?

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I have a Blackberry, and I am wondering if any of you have used your cell phone to call 911 without the use of a TTY. If so, how do you do this?

Re-Edit: I should have mentioned I am in Canada where the 911 and TTY relay systems are different than in other countries (we don't have Internet Relay Service and Video Relay Service isn't established nationwide).

I was thinking of maybe I'm somewhere and I witness a crime or someone being beaten up and I want to help but I can't hear on the phone and there's no one around for me to go and tell to call 911. Also if I am in trouble and need to call 911. So just wondering how that would work with a cell phone for a deaf person.
 
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My husband called 911 and told them to register me as deaf so that if I try to call, they will come anyway.

i am not sure about mobile phone, but some mobile phone do have a tty feature to it but I don't use it. I am afraid it would interfer regular phone calls so my son can talk to his daddy. If you have access to the internet, there are free rely service that you can use.
 
dial 911 and let GPS find you within 15 minutes and you're dead as police check it out.
 
Did you know, Jiro, in my hometown of Canberra, we have the best ambulance services in Australia than the other captial cities?
 
when I was having chest pains, I just called 911 and left the phone off the hook. Cops came and called the ambulance for me. Turned out my heart had five blockages.
 
Sadly the equipment hasn't kept up or been updated with technology advances.

In my area a cell phone will bounce off of whichever tower picks it up and route the call to the nearest 911 center to the tower and not necessarily the caller.

We are still unable to pinpoint a cell call unless it is a major carrier locally.
 
Yeah, that is if your in area with limit amount of towers.

To pinpoint location, need to have three towers in triagular to be able to pinpoint where you are. If only 1 or 2 tower recongizes your pager, locating your pager is impossible.

Does not matter who is the carrier, any e911 services all carriers is required to share the system. They are not required to share for normal usage.

ASLGAL said:
Sadly the equipment hasn't kept up or been updated with technology advances.

In my area a cell phone will bounce off of whichever tower picks it up and route the call to the nearest 911 center to the tower and not necessarily the caller.

We are still unable to pinpoint a cell call unless it is a major carrier locally.
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ASLGAL said:
Sadly the equipment hasn't kept up or been updated with technology advances.

In my area a cell phone will bounce off of whichever tower picks it up and route the call to the nearest 911 center to the tower and not necessarily the caller.

We are still unable to pinpoint a cell call unless it is a major carrier locally.
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You're in the USA, right? So if the 911 system is unable to pinpoint a 911 call it would be the same in Canada I presume? Cell phones are not like landlines where the 911 system can identify the specific address, right?
 
Use voice phone and wait for few minutes then hung up and police will look for you, usually come in your home address.
 
Whatever you have emergency that need for fire or hospital, do not use 911 and hang up. Need to have number ready to be reachable with relay or something to use to contact.

dial 911 and hang up, it usually send the only police not everybody.
 
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