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Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Gotta love the non testable features.

"Can we place a test call?"
"Why would you want to do THAT?"

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    You can place test calls, but emergency calls are magically handled differently and the only way to trigger that is to make an emergency call.

    Carriers can test phones in their labs, but they have no way to know what modem firmware end users are running. The same hardware sold in different places can have different software images loaded.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Well, from a technical standpoint, nothing speaks again adding another number to the emergency number list (there's already multiple across the world and even within most countries) that'll be handled the same up until somewhere very close to the destination, where it'll be routed into an answering machine.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    You could do that, but you know some of these manufacturers will treat the test number as a special case that works differently to real emergency numbers. And half of the rest will treat it as a normal number, so dial it normally.

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