Patent ID: 7340239

Claim:
A method comprising: signaling a first identity to a smart card in a terminal, if access is sought by the terminal to a first list having at least one emergency number that is treatable as non-general only if the terminal supports calls for non-general types of emergencies, sending to the smart card a second identity if access is sought by the terminal to a second list having at least one emergency number that is treatable as general if the terminal is compatible with third generation specifications, even if the terminal only supports general emergency calls, and receiving the first list or the second list from the smart card, in response to the first identity or the second identity respectively, wherein the smart card includes both the first list and the second list, and wherein the terminal is programmed to perform the signaling and the sending, or instead is programmed to perform the sending only, said signaling or sending being responsive to user input indicative of an emergency or instead responsive to booting the terminal.