Your concern about having young kids is valid (and ditto for your statement about bundling), but for my family, with school aged children and no cable (we âcut the cordâ a couple of years ago), it didnât make sense to pay for a landline. The worst part is that we had an officer come to our house last night at 3:30am saying our phone had called 911, we never called 911! When 911 is dialed from a landline within the county, the call goes directly to either the Jasper dispatch or county 911 center. Watch. This was never a problem until I got the iPhone X, which has some new features tied to those side buttons. Well, we didn't call it, and after they checked our phone, they said the phone line's messed up. In many states, dialing â211â provides individuals and families in need with a shortcut through what may be a bewildering maze of health and human service agenciesâ phone numbers. Landline phones were not affected by the AT&T outage. Its almost like our line is crossing with someone elses and showing our number as the caller without us making the call. My old boss accidentally dialed 911 instead of ... We don't have a landline, and we only use cell phones for our ... it turned out there was a database glitch in the 911 system itself. Next, if you have a phone in the house that is working, unplug it and plug the phone thatâs not working into that jack. I think itâs in a kidâs DNA, right? ... And if you call 911 on a phone thatâs not on a contract, there wonât be a phone number associated with it, so the 911 operator wonât be able to call you back if you get disconnected. In 2011, researchers from Google studied 911 calls in San Francisco and found that 30 percent of emergency calls from wireless phones were accidental. Certain information automatically pops up on the dispatcherâs computer screen, most importantly about the phoneâs location. The device continuously dialed 911 over a 10-hour period, placing thousands of Many people use Reverse Phone Lookup to determine whether or not a strange number is a scam, and then they block that number. This outgoing call blocker device is pre-programmed to block outgoing 911 calls. The ANI/ALI (automatic number identification/automatic location identification) is standard equipment in any Public Service Answering Point (PSAP), colloquially known as the 911 center. More specifically, if you press and hold both the power button and a volume button for a few seconds, your phone will call 911 and/or your designated emergency contacts. Why the phone dialed 911, of all numbers, was odd. I get it. Roughly 40% of American households still have landline home phone service, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The caller display showed my own phone number! When you call 911 from a traditional landline (a telephone connected to the lines on the poles) a computer in the dispatch center will show the number and address of the phone you're using. I couldn't figure out where it was coming from so I went over to my phone (on the other side of the room) and I saw that my phone was dialing 911. You could keep in touch with your friends & relatives when your/their electricity was down & during 9/11 when all the cellphones were down, I could use my landline phone & use my computer, which was hooked up to a second landline. That was lower than the percentage for wireline calls, with 37 percent accidental. I looked at my phone afterwards - at the call log - and saw that I hadn't dialed any emergency number, or any number since a month before. The number of accidental 911 calls been on the rise with the broad adoption of smartphones. by | earlier 0 LIKES Like UnLike. my phone called 911 by itself in the middle of the night??? Its almost like our line is crossing with someone elses and showing our number as the caller ⦠We have Comcast (which we hate, by the way), and our landline phone has been calling people randomly. A wired phone line didnât go down during a power outage. Landline phones do not have lock screens, meaning that young children or the elderly are likely to be able to use a landline much easier than a cell phone. I went to find my phone, and it indicated that 911 was called. iPhone X called 911 by itself. All wireless phones, even those that are not subscribed to or supported by a specific carrier, can call 911. The caller said it was 911, asking if everything was ok. Simply plug it in between your existing phone and phone jack (as shown in installation diagram) and start blocking outbound (outgoing dialing) to 911. If Iâm not mistaken, you can plug a phone into a disconnected land line and still make 911 calls. Every single time my phone rings now, I am assuming the worst.