[LINK] Dangerously ambiguous advice from Google AI on making emergency calls

[Kim Holburn]

Your phone socket probably is a VOIP phone so who knows.  Is it possible to make 000 or 112 calls from a VOIP phone?  BTW Did you 
actually try it?

On 12/8/2025 8:44 am, Tom Worthington wrote:
> I did a Google web search to see if I could make a voice emergency call to Triple-0 using a Telstra data only Sim card. Depending 
> on the wording of the question Google AI said yes, or no.
>
> When I did this search: "Emergency call on telstra data sim", Google AI said yes, I could:
>
>     "Yes, you can make emergency calls (000 or 112) on a Telstra data SIM, even if it's a data-only SIM and doesn't have a phone 
> number"
>
> However when I searched on "use telstra data only sim for emergency call", Google AI said no, I couldn't:
>
>     "No, a Telstra data-only SIM cannot be used to make emergency calls (like calling 000 in Australia). Emergency calls require a 
> voice service, which is not included in data-only SIM plans."
>
> The latter seems odd, as you are supposed to be able to make emergency calls without a Sim card.
>
> This came up as I have been using a wireless modem. Recently I bought a new modem which an RJ-11 socket for an old fashioned 
> analog phone. This works fine with my phone Sim card. But I thought it would be useful to be able to be able to make an emergency 
> call using the data only Sim I normally use in the modem.
>
>
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