George wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:
LouB wrote:
wrote:
LouB wrote:
Yabut a cell phone system can be easily overloaded in a big emergency.
If you can't get through, emergency services isn't going to have
anyone to send to help you anyway. Best to wait until things calm down
if you can. If you can't, put your head between your legs and kiss
your ass goodbye...
Not necessarily so. Cell circuits get overload with a zillion "are
you OK" or "I am OK" calls having nothing to do with NEEDING help.
Regular circuits do also.
Lou
A little programming could block 90% of trivial
calls allowing only 911 calls to go through. It
could be an interesting twist to giving more
control of the network over to FEMA for emergencies.
And then there is the law of unintended consequences. Cell systems can
prioritize traffic but they don't. Lets say there is an emergency of
some sort and you are trapped. The all knowing and powerful FEMA workers
are yammering away on their prioritized phones and your phone no longer
works because it doesn't have the right priority.
911 calls are now allowed to any cell phone even
if it's not registered to a particular network.
Dang feller, you didn't get that?
TDD