Russia goes on a three-digit system call emergency services
In Russia there comes a gradual transition to a three-digit system call emergency services.

In Russia there comes a gradual transition to a three-digit system call emergency services.
As said on Monday in the Ministry of communications and mass media, to replace the conventional two-digit numbers 01 (fire), 02 (police), 03 (emergency medical care) and 04 (gas service) arrive rooms with a unit in the early - 101, 102, 103 and 104, respectively.
"The transition to the new system will depend on the technical readiness of operators and will take some time. To the end of the transition in all networks in parallel with the new will work and old room," he told ITAR-TASS in the Ministry.
There explained that the changes will allow to create unified system of short codes call of emergency services in fixed and mobile communication networks, in which two-digit numbers do not work.
Reservation of a three-digit numbers is installed came at present in force by a decree of the Ministry of communications of Russia of 20 November 2013 number 360 "On making configurations in the domestic system and numbering plan, confirmed by the decree of the Ministry of information technologies and communications of Russia of November 17, 2006 # 142".
Also, for the line "Child at risk" will be used for General non 121 and 123. And for a single service to help people for consultation with the receiving state and municipal services in electronic form - room 115.
"Any change in the conventional numbering system is a quite serious step you need to do is doubly carefully, if we are talking about the numbers of the emergency call service, - stressed the head of the Ministry of communications Nikolay Nikiforov. - Specifically because the transition to new numbering system will be gradual.
At the end of December 2010, Dmitry Medvedev, who occupied the then President, signed a decree on the total number of call timely services in all regions of Russia - 112. It was envisaged that the transition to the new emergency room will be gradual, and as a result it completely replaces, as expected, the former non-call services 01, 02, 03 and 04 by 2017. In December 2012, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a law establishing a system call key timely emergency services total number 112 on the terrain of the whole nation, tells RIA "Novosti".
In early March 2013 was confirmed by the Federal program on creation of the common rooms 112 to call timely services. It is assumed that by 2017, the system will work in 67 regions of the Russian Federation.