Saving Lives After Natural Disasters With Fast Set-Up Phone Network
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 21:21
in Earth & Climate
A ten-kilo GSM mobile phone network will allow rescue workers to set up communications just hours, or even minutes, after a man-made or natural catastrophe. When disaster strikes communications are often one of the first infrastructures to go down. But it is exactly when effective communications are most desperately needed.