Emergency service call back to a ported number

An emergency call back method, comprising:

• receiving, at a Public Service Answering Point (PSAP), an emergency routing number of a switch in a wired communication network handling communication needs of a wired phone initiating an emergency call, the emergency routing number being such that a call routed to the switch including the emergency routing number as a called party number is recognized by the switch as an emergency call back based on the emergency routing number without retrieving an identifier of a mobile station;
• receiving a hardware identifier in association with the emergency routing number, the hardware identifier identifying, at the switch, the landline connecting the switch to the wired phone initiating the emergency call;
• and
• initiating a call back to the wired phone at the PSAP by calling the emergency routing number when the emergency call made by the wired phone drops.

A method for handling an emergency call, comprising:

• receiving a directory number of a wired phone in association with an emergency call from the wired phone;
• storing, at a switch of a wired communication network, a hardware identifier in a mapping table in association with the directory number, the hardware identifier identifying at the switch the landline connecting the switch to the wired phone initiating the emergency call;
• and
• sending an emergency routing number and the directory number to a Public Service Answering Point (PSAP), the emergency routing number being the emergency routing number of the switch in handling communication needs of a wired phone initiating an emergency call and being such that a call routed to the switch including the emergency routing number as a called party number is recognized by the switch as an emergency call back based on the emergency routing number without retrieving an identifier of a mobile station.

A method for routing a call, comprising:

• receiving, at a switch of a wired communication network, a called party number and a directory number associated with a call;
• accessing a hardware identifier from a mapping table using the directory number when the called party number matches an emergency routing number assigned to the switch, the hardware identifier identifying, at the switch, the landline connecting the switch to the wired phone initiating the emergency call;
• and
• routing the call on the landline associated with the hardware identifier when the called party number matches an emergency routing number assigned to the switch, the emergency routing number being such that a call routed to the switch including the emergency routing number as the called party number is recognized by the switch as an emergency call back based on the emergency routing number without retrieving an identifier of a mobile station.