Re:Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car
by p_l on Thursday November 06, 2025 @07:06AM
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Since eCall uses 112 infrastructure, it does not need subscriber identity, as the call will be accepted by any network in range.
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Re:Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car
by rickdeckard on Thursday November 06, 2025 @08:37AM
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This is no longer reliably the case, because the carrier is legally required to provide a minimum set of information about the caller (its location) to the emergency services, which many cannot fulfill if the call was made without a SIM.
In the past they handled the call without that information, but after an incident in 2013 the court ruled that the requirements also must be fulfilled without a SIM (0).
So some carriers (notably all German ones) stopped accepting Emergency calls without SIM, first to not be in violation of the law but nowadays apparently due to "misuse" (?) (1).
(0) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
(1) https://www.heise.de/en/background/112-Emergency-Call-Day-No...
Apparently the lack of emergency calls without SIM is due to pre-existing german practice because of some "misuse" of emergency calls.
I have no words that would not end up in things that might necessity calling 112...