According to the FCC, 50% of wireless 911 calls are butt-dials

After visiting a number of 911-emergency call centers in New York and Alaska, FCC Commissioner Michael O’Reilly determined that 911 misdials from wireless numbers is becoming an emergency in itself.



About 70% of all emergency calls come from wireless phones, and of those, half were the result of misdials due to the phone being jostled around in a purse, or squished courtesy of gluteus maximus action (aka butt-dialing). That is up from about 20% only a few years ago.



It is easy to make good humor of such phenomena, but O’Reilly figures that means as many as 84 million misdialed calls ...



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