[LINK] SMS - shortcomings in emergency services

[Ivan Trundle]

On 19/09/2008, at 8:04 AM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:

> 3G Americas has produced this white paper (PDF, you can skip the
> registration), which provides the first serious, engineering-based
> analysis I've seen so far:
> <http://www.3gamericas.org//registration/register.cfm?content_id=118&goto=http://3gamericas.org/PDFs/Characterizing_the_Limitations_of_3rd_Party_EAS-Traynor_Sept08.pdf&newwin=0 
> >
>
> The conclusion, that SMS is unsuited to emergency notification,  
> doesn't
> surprise me. However, the detail of the analysis makes it well worth
> reading.

Anyone who experienced such calamities as the Canberra bushfires etc  
will know perfectly well that the mobile network is the first to  
collapse under the load, and cannot be relied upon in any sense.

iT