Mobile Cell Phone Towers For Disaster Relief

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @09:48AM from the well-seattle's-a-reception-disaster dept.

cerberus4696 writes "According to today's Denver Post, Verizon recently premiered one of its new Cells On Light Trucks (COLTs), a complete, self-contained CDMA cell that can be moved to wherever it's needed, such as the scene of a natural disaster or a large public event. Since a standard CDMA cell can only handle a theoretical maximum of 62 calls at a time (usually less in practice), the network of permanent fixtures can quickly become overloaded in high-use situations. Verizon already uses a larger version of the system known as a Cell On Wheels (or COW; gotta love these acronyms), but as it takes three trucks and the better part of a day to deploy, nimbleness of response has apparently been an issue."

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Off topic, but reminds me... by el-spectre · 2004-06-30 09:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

A neighbooring city, Cerritos has a public transportation program: "Cerritos On Wheels (COW)". The busses are white with black spots. Gotta love a city with a sense of humor.

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Re:Pictures? by Bombcar · 2004-06-30 10:55 · Score: 1, Offtopic

You know that you could have made that search be one link, right?

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