November 19th, 2007
911 dispatchers in eastern Iowa are having issues with a rogue cell phone that continues to call and hang up.
Unfortunately the dispatchers cannot ignore the phone calls because there potentially could be an emergency on the other end.
The phone is extremely difficult to track down because it is an old line that is not associated with a cell phone provider at the moment. Old phones that are not attached to a service provider can still call 911 due to the rules set in 1994 by the Federal Communications Commission.
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