ESTABLISHING EMERGENCY CALLS WITHIN A MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

A location of a first emergency call connection (60) requested from a mobile station (10A) within a mobile telecommunications network (5) is determined. Thereafter, if a second emergency call connection (60) is requested from another mobile station (108) within approximately the same geographic area or location, an announcement message informing the caller of the already reported incident is provided. The caller then has the option of terminating the call or connecti ng to a Public Safety Answering Point (20) (PSAP) operator. An application module (230) associated with the serving mobile telecommunications network (5) may further transmit unstructured data, such as Short Message Service (SMS) or Unstructured Supplementary Service Da ta (USSD) messages (250), to all other mobile stations (10) currently traveling within the reported location or area. Such reportin g enables other mobile subscribers to be informed of the reported incident and not to request emergency call connections (60) in an attempt to report the same incident. It may further enable other mobile stations (10) to avoid or detour around the reported site.