Location Determination and Telephone Number Distribution for Emergency Calls

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions operable to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• determining a location of a calling device from which an emergency call to a public safety answering point is initiated;
• determining, from amongst pools of telephone numbers maintained by a unified communications as a service platform in which each of the pools of telephone numbers is associated with a different region, a pool of telephone numbers associated with a region which includes the location of the calling device;
• and
• facilitating the emergency call between the calling device and the public safety answering point based on a telephone number from the pool of telephone numbers.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to:
• determine a location of a calling device from which an emergency call to a public safety answering point is initiated;
• determine, from amongst pools of telephone numbers maintained by a unified communications as a service platform in which each of the pools of telephone numbers is associated with a different region, a pool of telephone numbers associated with a region which includes the location of the calling device;
• and
• facilitate the emergency call between the calling device and the public safety answering point based on a telephone number from the pool of telephone numbers.