be temporarily or permanently stored during the operation of the wireless telecommunication system the database 22 may also store information utilized in implementing methods in accordance with the present invention fig2 illustrates a flow diagram of a first embodiment of a method in accordance with the present invention as used herein a u201c handset u201d refers to the physical device utilized for communications and a u201c subscriber u201d refers to the person using a handset for communications in step 30 a determination of the location of the handset used by the subscriber is made and a corresponding non emergency number nen is determined based on that location a variety of known techniques exist for determining the location of a wireless handset for example the handset may be equipped with a global positioning satellite gps receiver that can be utilized to obtain latitude and longitude coordinates and transmit these coordinates to the wireless infrastructure equipment known wireless triangulation and signal strength measurements can also be utilized to determine the location of handsets the general location of a handset can also be determined based on the current base station supporting the handset i e the handset will be somewhere within the coverage area supported by.