911 may have worked but no telling where the 911 call would have went to in the states.
That's a good point. Those cell phones are tricky. A friend of mine went to Italy and spent quite a long time on the phone at work ordering an international cell phone and getting to work just right for her trip. She has a teenaged son at home to keep track of and planned to call home every day. He stayed with relatives, but he'd seen his dad drop dead of a heart attack when he was five or six, so it's only mom and Eric.