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Billy
Billy

Reputation: 513

Can sinch call emergency numbers like 911?

Can sinch app-to-phoneline service be used to call 911 emergency services (using their iOS and Android SDKs)?

Code snippet on the iOS MainViewController. I managed to invoke the callPhoneNumber method to call a regular PSTN line using sinch. However, I cannot test a call to 911 because I do not wish to tie up a real emergency line.

How can I verify this code would work if the target phone number is 911?

thanks,

@implementation MainViewController

- (id<SINClient>)client {
    return [(AppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] client];
}

- (IBAction)call:(id)sender {
    if ([self.destination.text length] > 0 && [self.client isStarted]) {
    id<SINCall> call = [self.client.callClient callPhoneNumber:self.destination.text];
    [self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"callView" sender:call];
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 227

Answers (1)

ftornier
ftornier

Reputation: 346

Sinch does not support calling emergency numbers. As a general guideline, when calling with Sinch, phone numbers should be specified according to the E.164 number formatting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164) recommendation and should be prefixed with a ‘+’.

Upvotes: 2

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