Greek authorities on Friday evening issued an urgent message to citizens to use the three-digit number “112” in case of an emergency instead of the long-standing “100”, Greece’s version of “911”.
Reports in the evening stated that the telecommunications system linking callers to a police dispatcher has “crashed”, for an undetermined reason.
The latest nationwide technical “glitch” comes more than three weeks after the Athens FIR experienced a half-day “blackout” on Sunday, Jan. 4, disrupting flights to and from Greece, and by result, causing delays and cancellations throughout Europe.
Telecoms systems were merely “reset” at the time and returned to normal, although the embarrassingly disruption of civil aviation accelerated efforts to modernize all affiliated systems in the country.
