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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Re:sheesh by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-30 09:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

don't forget good ole' George W. I wanna bomb the innocent Bush.
He's the great equlizer, no matter how much good "stuff" you might have, it's all negated by the crook you call president.
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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