Indian Government Makes Panic Button Mandatory for New Mobile Phones From January 1 2017

All mobile handsets sold in India from January 2017 will need to highlight a frenzy catch that will permit ladies in trouble to look for help. Furthermore, from January 2018, all mobile phones must have an inbuilt GPS to recognize the handset client's area, as per a notice of the Department of Telecommunications.

"Innovation is exclusively intended to improve human life and what superior to anything utilizing it for the security of ladies," interchanges and IT pastor Ravi Shankar Prasad said. "I have taken a choice that from January 1, 2017, no PDA can be sold without a procurement for frenzy catch and from January 1, 2018, mobile sets ought to have inbuilt GPS." While the numeric keys 5 and 9 have been distinguished as push catches for a crisis in highlight telephone handsets, in cell phones, handset makers will need to give a "crisis" catch or an office to send an alarm by short-squeezing the force on/off catch thrice one after another.

As reported before by ET, the legislature is of the perspective that crisis reaction applications can take too long to access in a surge and arranging one of the current catches on a telephone for the assignment would be easier and faster. This is a piece of a series of measures declared by the Modi government to guarantee wellbeing of ladies.

Despite the fact that Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said last December that all makers were ready for the same, it stays hazy if makers like Apple would take care of business. The new principles - Panic catch and Global Positioning System office in all mobile phone handsets Rules, 2016 - have indicated that no assembling organization should offer mobile handphone sets in India from January 1, 2017 without the office of having a frenzy catch and all telephones will obligatorily likewise have GPS area office from January 1, 2018. The principles stand informed on April 22.

The principle is that a women in trouble may not have the time or opportunity to dial 100 from her mobile and should be able to send an alert by simple press of a button. A GPS-mandated phone would enable police receiving that alert to be able to zero in on the location of the women in distress and rush help to her as soon as possible. It is unclear if old mobile phones will also get the new panic alarm button.