Re: [DDN] SMS vs phones: a New Orleans perspective

2005-09-03 Thread Taran Rampersad
Cindy Lemcke-Hoong wrote: Hello Taran, Good to lear another thing from you ... The Alert Retrieval Cache concept. I have been away from telco too long. It is new to me. But can this be set up in advance? What I mean is can it be something just like 911 for example. It is there and every knows

Alert Retrieval Cache (ARC) (was Re: [DDN] SMS vs phones: a New Orleans perspective)

2005-09-03 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi Taran ARC is a great concept because it sounds so easy to set up and use (sounds only judgmental on my tech understanding, not on the concept). After the tsunami, my brother got an SMS from the Red Cross telling him a friend who was in Sri Lanka was accounted for and OK. He actually

Re: Alert Retrieval Cache (ARC) (was Re: [DDN] SMS vs phones: a New Orleans perspective)

2005-09-03 Thread Taran Rampersad
Claude Almansi wrote: Now if I understand correctly, you say they could had added a number that would have sent the same message to a mailing list all relief bodies could have accessed? Right. People would SMS a number, like 767 (numeric of SMS on a phone), and that would be forwarded to an

Re: [DDN] SMS vs phones: a New Orleans perspective

2005-09-02 Thread Cindy Lemcke-Hoong
Hello Taran, Good to lear another thing from you ... The Alert Retrieval Cache concept. I have been away from telco too long. It is new to me. But can this be set up in advance? What I mean is can it be something just like 911 for example. It is there and every knows it. When it is emergency