• Announcements     Deaf people now have access to 999 Emergency
service!  1 post in this topic   Deaf people now have access to
999 Emergency service!  After many years of no access to the
UK's 999 services for Deaf/Hard of Hearing people while 'on the
move', good old RNID, BT, Ofcom, and the mobile phone companies
has been planning this for many years and are happy to announce
this - 999 by SMS!  In the old days, each area (i.e. Norfolk,
Suffolk, etc) would have their own mobile number that are for
"non-Emergency" use and would be much harder to know which one
to use if you're not in the area that you usually are. With this
single 999 SMS, it make things a lot easier for them to use as
it's a national service.  One of the people I know, Charlie, has
written this article which goes into depth about how it works:
You don't have to be deaf to appreciate text messages, but as of
this month, if you are deaf, sending a text might do more than
just help you socialise - it could save your life. A new system
is bei