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Reverse 911 comes to Mobile

Recently the FCC approved a new system for sending emergency text / SMS messages to mobile phone users has both good and potentially damaging consequences.

On the positive side, I like taking the "reverse 911" concept to mobile and providing text messages to those users in the event of emergency.

However, I see two issues....

  1. Should too many of these messages come to mobile phone users, they could lose their impact.
  2. Is it possible that established telecoms will use this as a requirement to further hinder the growth of mobile VoIP services similar to how they use 911 services as barrier to entry for wired VoIP providers?

Either from a user perspective or from a barrier to entry perspective, there could be unintended consequences coming from new development.

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  Posted by jmyers on April 11, 2008 8:00 AM |

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