MOBILE USERS - NUMBER CAN BE DIALED WITHOUT SIM CARD DURING EMERGENCY

An intersting post by Selva Kumar, a Chennai Copywriter on Creativegarh:

The Emergency Number worldwide for GSM Mobile is 112 and not 999. You can dial 112 even without a Sim Card.

If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to
establish the emergency number for you.

Do share this important info with others too. Hope you'll never need to use it though! and interestingly .. this number 112 can be dialed even while the keypad is locked.