On Nov 10, 2:13�pm, The Daring Dufas wrote:
DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Nov 10, 10:35 am, 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.
I know that at one time, the national phone system
could be basically taken over by the federal
government during The Cold War. If I'm not mistaken,
the feds have their own separate network now. All
that extra fiber that was run during The Internet
boom and bust hasn't gone to waste.

TDD

Define "trivial calls".

If emergency workers are trying to coordinate the efforts via cell-
phone, how would they do that?

You might respond by saying that "official" emergency workers would/
should have their own network, but what about the thousands of workers
from volunteer organizations that are helping out?

At any given disaster, there are innumerable people who chip in to
supplement the "official" workers - people whose skills and efforts
are really needed. If only 911 calls were allowed to go through, their
efforts would be extremely hampered.

How do wireless carriers control their network now?
How do the companies determine which phones can mow
access their networks. You know that any cell phone
is supposed to be allowed 911 access even if it's
not registered to a particular carrier. Do you have
any idea what a SIM card is? How about an ESN for a
cell phone? It would be no problem for a control
network to be setup for such a situation. Any volunteer
could call into a center, give their information,
get registered and go to work. Of course severe sanctions
would have to be imposed on the inevitable self serving
assholes who always seem to pop up in any situation.
Heck, texting takes up a lot less bandwidth and time
on the wireless networks. Reasonable texting could be
allowed for all the "Are You OK Dear" messages. My
cheap little cell phone can handle texting and it
would be now problem to alter the wireless networks
so that an emergency text message could be sent to
all cell phones as soon as they come up on the network.
"There is an area wide emergency for *****, please
restrict phone calls to those that are absolutely
necessary." This is all hypothetical but possible with
existing technology. I wonder if the wireless networks
are as clogged with verbal spam much like E-mail?
I wonder how much of the traffic is simple jabbering.
When cell phone access was expensive, I can guarantee
that there was a lot less unnecessary traffic.

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During a EMERGENCY all calls but 911 ones will be blocked
automatically by phone programming when first activated.

emergency workers have unblocked phones that ignore the 911 rule only,
they can call anyone as needed

this elminates overloaded cell systems crashing.

the copper wired system is much more robust in a emergency.......