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Re:"Out of Band" network management is not trivial by pgraf on Sunday July 07, 2024 @05:46AM (#40896349)
Sounds like a problem that should be (rather easily) fixable in the Operating System, no?

If the emergency call doesn’t go through, try the call over a different network. This would also mitigate problems we see from time to time where emergency calls don’t work because the uplink to the emergency call center was impacted either physically or by a bad software update.

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Re:"Out of Band" network management is not trivial by Scoundreller on Sunday July 07, 2024 @06:21AM (#40896471)
Yes, seems to be a deficiency in the gsm spec as this affected most/all devices.

I didn’t think this failure mode was even possible.

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Re:"Out of Band" network management is not trivial by sidewndr46 on Sunday July 07, 2024 @10:01AM (#40897811)
Very few phones have the calls handled by the OS. It usually is handled by something called the baseband, which is more like firmware
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