Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Plane-crash survivors text-message for help
This story was reported in yesterday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, but that is a subscription site and linking can be a problem. Today, the AP version runs in the Conway Log Cabin Democrat and the headline is, of course, the link.
The important thing to understand here is that out in the wilderness one probably does not have a strong enough link with a cell phone tower for a voice call BUT you need almost no signal to send a text message. That is how the victims notified relatives so the search could begin. Ain't technology wonderful?
The important thing to understand here is that out in the wilderness one probably does not have a strong enough link with a cell phone tower for a voice call BUT you need almost no signal to send a text message. That is how the victims notified relatives so the search could begin. Ain't technology wonderful?
