A recent survey by the Find Me 911 coalitionsuggests emergency dispatchers in the U.S. face difficulty tracing the location of wireless calls. Concerns over the ability of cell networks to report the location of mobile phones in emergencies have existed going back many years, but these results (if you trust the method used to obtain them) suggests the industry still has a long way to go.
Here's one particularly chilling account from an emergency responder in Missouri, USA: Received a 911 from a cell phone with an open line. It was a female that sounded as if she had her mouth gagged. She was getting beat [and] even her dog was being hurt. The lat/long came to an abandoned building in St Louis City... Could not pinpoint her location, and her phone died. She was never found.
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