[LINK] No cash for phone alert system

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:53 AM 18/02/2009, Kim Holburn wrote:
>  It can broadcast without
>the overhead of SMS to any phones in the vicinity.  As I understand it
>because there is no handshaking as with SMS there is almost no overhead
>in the cell station.  I also believe it would not require much change in
>our current systems.

If it was direct, it would alleviate the store and forward delay 
problem associated with SMS. I also had a friend whose sms memory had 
filled up and didn't get my message. I didn't know that was possible 
until it happened last Friday. I was definitely aware of the SMS 
problem, though.

The Royal Commission lead commissioner was on Jon Faine this morning. 
They will be open to public submissions. One area they mentioned 
specifically was communication improvement.

Jan



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