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New Orleans Cops Use Single Radio Channel

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Thu Sep 1 21:36:27 2005

From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 01:34:05 GMT
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


An AP newswire article by Bruce Myerson, via Yahoo! News,
reports that:

[snip]

By Thursday, nearly 10,000 satellite-based wireless phones had poured into the hurricane zone to coordinate relief efforts by federal disaster personnel and Red Cross workers, said service providers Globalstar LLC and Iridium Satellite LLC.

[snip]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050902/ap_on_hi_te/katrina_telecom

- ferg


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