Some Google Pixel phones are struggling to reach emergency services – again (opens in new tab)

I'm glad to see this finally gaining a little bit of traction. The linked posts in the article don't even include the latest horror story from Reddit (which I guess may have been posted after the article was finalized):

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/xwjnf2/pixel_6...

This one, like the others, also includes other reports of the same issue in the comments.

Hope to see Google acknowledge this before too long.

How in the world is this not a certification requirement for phones to be on the big carriers’ networks (which would also cover Fi)?

How the hell does this keep happening?

I have never had reliable 911 service on my Pixel 6, so glad to finally be parting ways with it.

It's wild to take a shitphone my carrier gave me for free, and it can reliably dial 911, meanwhile this phone I paid hundreds for that has 3 unique cellular networks it can cling to to make a 911 call refuses to place said call.

The darn Pixel 6 also leans way too heavily on low band LTE and 5G New Radio, making data performance lackluster as your often on overloaded, narrow slices of spectrum and not benefitting from carrier aggregation with midband and high band spectrum.

Is there a good explainer on why this is actually happening?

Can't get my head round how it only affects 911 (000) calls, no expert on telephony networks but my naïve assumption would be that if I can call a normal landline/mobile then an emergency call would work just the same.