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Yes. And other countries emergency numbers as well.

The perils of treating phone as "just another app", lack of testing, etc.

I think 112 must work everywhere according to some standard (the GSM standard?).

GSM standard + standard in the EU also for landlines.

In many other countries 911 works as well, simply because it's pervasive across TV.

I've would have dialed:

0118 999 881 999 119 7253

I thought it had been changed for ages.

An email also works in some cases.

I thought an email only works if there is a fire, exclamation mark, fire, exclamation mark...

Thank you for reminding me of the IT crowd. Now I have the music in my head