Method for testing elevator emergency phones and elevator emergency communication system

A method for testing an elevator emergency phone, which emergency phone is either VoIP compliant and connected to a WAN or is connected with a mobile connection module for operation in a mobile network, said method comprising the steps of:

• periodically initiating the phone to be registered in the corresponding communication network;
• monitoring the registration attempt by a reporting device;
• and
• communicating status data of the registration attempt by the reporting device to a monitoring center, which itself is connected to the communication network, which monitoring center takes necessary action when either a registration attempt is not being executed within a set time period or the result of at least one registration attempt has been communicated as failed,
• wherein a test call function is initiated by the monitoring center when no emergency calls have been issued from the emergency phone over a predetermined time period to confirm functionality of the emergency phone.