<div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;"><pre>All<br><br>I am the PTS area representative for FEMA regions 3 and 5. If anyone knows<br>of an eligible organization that might be interested in GETS/WPS/TSP service<br>please feel free to send them my way. Unfortunately GETS/WPS is one of the<br>best kept secrets in emergency communication.<br>Thanks<br><br>73<br>Bryan<br>KG4UPR<br><br>Bryan A. Stephens, P.E. (MD Lic. No. 20485)<br>PTS Area Representative (PAR)<br>Regions 3 and 5<br>Office: 703-433-1905<br><br>>E-911 calls will generally preempt normal cell phone traffic (or have
>access to some standby capacity) on mobile networks. The mobile
>networks can also free up radio capacity on cell sites by dropping or
>reducing bandwidth allocations for data traffic.
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>I got a chance to see some interesting cell network usage data during an
>earthquake in New Zealand some years ago. (I was working for
>Alcatel-Lucent at the time, and they had a bunch of their equipment in a
>mobile operator's network in NZ.) The earth moves, everyone picks up
>their phone to call someone. The network remained stable because those
>signaling components were engineered for overload situations. Usually
>the weakest link is control plane/signaling traffic since the radio
>channels can easily be reallocated very quickly.
>
>This is also ignoring any GETS capability that might exist in those
>networks.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Emergency_Telecommunications_Service">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Emergency_Telecommunications_Service</a>
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>louie
>wa3ymh</pre></div>