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This was one of my first jobs at Blackberry.

It was considered the utmost priority for a call to 911 to be clear enough for the other side to hear that you are an employee at a testing facility verifying that the device does work and the other person can hear you and NOT dispatch emergency services....

Cops/EMTs show up, your firmware is junk.

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How often did they show up, and who paid the fine?

Not often, and we didn't get fined (they were like three blocks down the road)

It was really bad around the VolTE roll-out because the firmwares were pretty junky at that point (like a 10-1 failure rate) so we started doing testing calling from a phone to another (working) phone before doing the emergency services call.

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