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Re:Show HN: TT911 – Text 911 your location and name without ... by afreak on Friday July 11, 2014 @12:41PM (#8021089)
That very much depends on the locale for the latter. If I call 911 and either hang up after they answer or if you say that it is not an emergency but rather a mistake or test, they'll still arrive where I am.
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Re:Show HN: TT911 – Text 911 your location and name without ... by dwild on Friday July 11, 2014 @01:33PM (#8021367)
Can they get your location if you call 911 and hang up from a cellphone?

Where I live (in Canada), one time I did some test using a VOIP application, I have no idea why or how, but it caused a call to 911 (I didn't even saw the call...). They called some minutes later to see if everything was alright and when I said it was probably my test using VOIP that caused that, they understood instantly, like it wasn't unusual.

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Re:Show HN: TT911 – Text 911 your location and name without ... by MichaelGG on Friday July 11, 2014 @01:33PM (#8021366)
I started Dash911 and more recently MultiAlert911. In every case we've test called a PSAP, as long as we clearly started the call with "this is a non emergency VOIP test call" we had no problems.
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Re:Show HN: TT911 – Text 911 your location and name without ... by eli on Friday July 11, 2014 @01:19PM (#8021281)
Some places require you to get a test authorization in advance, others don't. Everyone allows testing though. Most encourage it.
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