Description

An emergency call is a call with a three digit short number of the emergency service selected by the caller: European emergency service 112; police, emergency call 117; fire, alarm center 118; victim support 142; friendly Hand 143; ambulance, emergency call 144; telephone help for children and young 147. An emergency call can be done from a fixed, mobile or satellite network. The emergency call must be routed to the alarm center of the competent service according to the location and nature of the case. A region from which the emergency calls are routed to a precise alarm center is an intervention region. The map shows the location of 144 alarm centers in Switzerland for emergency calls 144 originated from a fixed, mobile and satellite network. The 144 alarm centers and corresponding routing numbers of any intervention region are identified when selecting the targeted intervention region. The 144 fixed, mobile and satellite alarm centers of the intervention region can be the same alarm center or different alarm centers.

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Identifier
e8914fd0-4b48-4446-af8e-1afeea435060@bundesamt-fur-kommunikation-bakom
Issued date
January 1, 2014
Modified date
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Conforms to
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Publisher
Federal Office of Communications
Contact points
transmitter@bakom.admin.ch
Languages
Language independent
Further information
Landing page
https://www.bakom.admin.ch/en/sr-78410111313-emergency-call-requirement
Documentation
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Temporal coverage
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Spatial coverage
Schweiz
Update interval
Semiannual
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