Notification has been given to mobile companies saying that from 2017 onwards all mobile phones will come with panic button. Decision is taken looking at increasing crimes against women. This will enable users make emergency call easily.
“Technology is solely meant to make human life better and what better than using it for the security of women… from January 1, 2017, no cell phone can be sold without a provision for panic button and from January 1, 2018 mobile sets should have also GPS inbuilt,” Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a statement yesterday.