[Doxin]

It wasn't just the emergency number that was borken. The entire KPN telephony network was having issues. The alternative number could not be reached from phones using the KPN network, so having emergency calls on those phones redirect to the alternative wouldn't help much. Presumably the other networks didn't put routing into place since that'd be a rather large configuration change on short notice to a safety critical system.

[Zenst]

Again - the point I was making was. IF mobile networks were sending out a cell broadcast of an alternative number to use upon `their` networks. THEN why didn't they just do a routing change upon `their` networks. `their` networks were working - hence they was able to send out a network broadcast. They equally sent a new emergency number that was not upon KPN and as such worked.

As for large network configuration changes - pish, it really isn't that hard and would literally be a simple update upon their network only that they could just as easily change back. Not talking a global change update, just a per network (mobile) that was working (or the ones that were and able to push out a cell notification).

Hope that made it clearer for you.