All new
mobile phones sold in
India will have panic buttons from 2017
To provide emergency assistance to women, the Indian government had recently an**unced that all
mobile phones sold in
India from 2017 would require a
panic button to let users make emergency calls.*
It has **w been clarified that only new handsets
will come with
panic buttons, with Indian handset manufacturers arguing that it isn't "possible" to install them on
mobile phones that are already in use.*This effectively excludes the country's one billion plus
mobile phone subscribers
from the new facility.
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