Comments on: Canadian Shootings – SMS alerts used anywhere? http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/09/canadian_shooti.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:09:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: steve procter http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/09/canadian_shooti.html/comment-page-1#comment-502 steve procter Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:31:20 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.co.uk/2006/09/canadian_shootings_-_sms_alerts_used_anywhere.html#comment-502 I'm no disaster management guru either but the concept of using mobile/sms as a way of providing personalised and localised communication (in both directions) during disasters seems theoretically brilliant. However I fear that (certainly in this country, I don't know about Canada/others) the infrastructure simply isn't good enough to cope in extreme circumstances. On 7/7 there were major network problems which, depending on who you listen to were, because of lack of capacity, or because the networks actually disabled them for public use so that emergency workers could get priority calls through; or was it a combination of both? Either way it seems that the networks and government are missing a massive trick here in being able to provide the kind of emergency scenario communication that we need in this modern and sometimes scary world. And when most warfare tacticians know that knocking out communications is the initial objective in a conflict, it seems that if anyone wants to hit the UK then they needn't worry about us having a modern failsafe mobile communication system. cheers steve/itagg I’m no disaster management guru either but the concept of using mobile/sms as a way of providing personalised and localised communication (in both directions) during disasters seems theoretically brilliant.

However I fear that (certainly in this country, I don’t know about Canada/others) the infrastructure simply isn’t good enough to cope in extreme circumstances.

On 7/7 there were major network problems which, depending on who you listen to were, because of lack of capacity, or because the networks actually disabled them for public use so that emergency workers could get priority calls through; or was it a combination of both? Either way it seems that the networks and government are missing a massive trick here in being able to provide the kind of emergency scenario communication that we need in this modern and sometimes scary world. And when most warfare tacticians know that knocking out communications is the initial objective in a conflict, it seems that if anyone wants to hit the UK then they needn’t worry about us having a modern failsafe mobile communication system.

cheers
steve/itagg

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