About 52% of Australians feel that their location can be located when they call emergency services from their cell phone. They're mistaken, but the ACMA intends to alter that, to some degree.

The ACMA is aiming to make it a prerequisite of mobile network operators that they offer, on request from emergency services, "all location information available" regarding the caller.

However, in the short term, this is expected to be of very little help to anybody in dismal passages.

The ACMA says that, with the present technology employed by Australian mobile operators, the mobile location information made accessible to emergency service groups would vary from 50m to some kilometers, depending on the number of mobile base stations in the neighborhood of the mobile phone making the call.

That's the great news. But the bad news is that only two of Australia's three mobile network operators offer even this information, the ACMA did not reveal which ones.

The ACMA has released a discussion document regarding its suggestion to revise emergency call service regulations to necessitate mobile carriers to give all location information available in alliance with an authentic emergency call at the demand of an emergency service group.