emergency number selection for mobile communications device

摘要

Automatically selecting an emergency number for use by a mobile communications device (10) enabled for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications, including: receiving at the mobile communications device (10) a geographic indicator in a beacon frame transmitted from a wireless access point (116) of a wireless local area network (112) that is connected to an Internet Protocol network; and determining from a plurality of emergency numbers stored in a storage element (24, 26) of the mobile communications device (10) a selected emergency number in dependence on the received geographic indicator.