Support for emergency services in the IP Multimedia Core Network can be provided by certain IP-CANs according to
Table E.1, which shows the level of possible emergency support in this version of the specification. The UE may be able to use also other IP-CANs that are not included in
Table E.1 to access emergency services in the IP Multimedia Core Network, but the support of such access technologies is out of scope of this specification.
The term
"normal access" in
Table E.1 means that the IP-CAN is not made aware of the UE intent to establish an emergency services session and therefore provides no special emergency support e.g. call priority.
The term
"emergency support" in the Table means that the IP-CAN is made aware of the UE intent to establish an emergency services session, or at least of the priority nature of the access, so that the access network is able to handle the emergency call with appropriate priority.
The term
"insufficient security credentials" in the Table means that the IP CAN is able to allow a UE with no UICC card or a UICC card with insufficient credentials to obtain IP bearer access for emergency services in the IP Multimedia Core Network.
In order to support emergency call-back from the PSTN or CS Domain:
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For a single or multiple device subscription that contain both a SIP-URI and TEL-URI in at least one implicit registration set for each device (including subscriptions that share SIP-URIs and TEL-URIs between devices), IMS emergency sessions can already be supported. If the user registers with a temporary public user identity (e.g. the subscription has a device containing a USIM) ensure that a TEL-URI is provisioned in the same implicit registration set as the temporary public user identity.
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For a multiple device subscription that has TEL-URIs for some devices but has one or more devices that are not assigned an implicit registration set containing a TEL-URI (e.g. because these devices in the subscription are not allowed to use a TEL-URI in normal originations), the existing TEL-URIs in the subscription cannot be shared between all devices for the purposes of IMS emergency sessions.