Textphone / TTY hearing or speech impairment <unk>  logo<unk> Text Emergency Call, commonly known as simply<unk>  is the Australian national emergency telephone number to be used in life-threatening or time critical situations for those with a speech and / or hearing impairment who use telecommunications device for the deaf (textphone or teletypewriter (TTY)). It is run by the emergency telephone operator for the National Relay Service (NRS); formerly the Australian Communications Exchange (ACE), a non-profit organisation that provided the relay services component for the NRS.<unk> can only be used by people with a TTY / textphone, or a computer with terminal software (TTY imitation software) and a modem.<unk> calls are given priority over other calls handled by the National Relay Service.<unk> is a free-to-call number.
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