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The Daring Dufas[_5_]

George wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:
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

But I was commenting on this:

"It could be an interesting twist to giving more
control of the network over to FEMA for emergencies."

Well, FEMA is part of Homeland Security now so I
suppose they can do whatever in the hell they want
to do. They got lots of guns.

TDD