As you might already know cellular phones are not free. Cellular providers such as Cellular One pay $130 to $230 for cellular phones that are generally given away free to a customer who signs a one year contract. This one year contract also includes a monthly fee that ranges from $29.95 to $38.00 per month.

These emergency 911 cellular phones have no monthly phone bill and can dial free emergency 911 calls. This is all possible because the 911 cellular phones are programmed to meet the new FCC 911 cellular rules effective December 1, 1997. These new FCC rules mandate that cellular phones without a monthly service contract be able to make free 911 calls any where in the US. The FCC cellular 911 ruling took effect December 1, 1997 and requires carriers to accept 911 calls from non-validated phones (not activated with a monthly service contract) and forward the cellular 911 call to the local public safety answering point PSAP (911 answering center).

To place an emergency cellular 911 call, press the numbers 911 and then press the send button.

This phone is also programmed for One Touch Emergency 911 Dialing: -Press the “Power” key to turn the phone on -Press and hold the “RED 1” key for 2 seconds -"Attempting Emergency Call" will display The phone will automatically place a 911 call Press the “END” key to end the call

The phones meet Cellular Telephone Industry Association specifications and can be up graded to full cellular service with your local cellular service provider at any time.

Emergency 911 phones are different than an old unactvated phone that someone might own in which the cellular subscription contract has expired. In that case the phone becomes unactivated but it still has a phone number in the phone as well as other information programmed into the phone at the time of purchase. These phones might cause concern with the cellular carriers because of fraud with the unactivated phone numbers. We have found that some cellular carriers block 911 calls from these unactivated cellular phones. In our Emergency 911 phone we program the phone so it is clearly identified as a cellular phone with no phone number or system ID therefore the carrier has little concern of any fraud and the percent of 911, credit card and collect calls connecting is much improved.


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