Speaking of SMS. Some of the unsung heroes of 9/11/2001 were those genius Engineers from the old AT&T Wireless (now Cingular). I have heard 9/11 audio of the boys from Redmond completely schooling the fools at Verizon and their dopy mascot the “can you hear me guy”. That day Sprint and T-mobile had nothing and the then Nextel? Please. Nice crap iDen technology, falling our firefighters and police officers.
What was so great about what the engineers from AT&T wireless did? Well, some guy name Russ from somewhere out west presumably Redmond WA, kept popping into this 24hour emergency conference call with pure genius suggestions while the apes from the other mobile operators (Verizon, Sprint, Nextel, etc.) duh, brought pure lameness to the table.
Yes there were universal suggestions to deploy mobile cow cell sites and scanning equipment to try and get signals from the world trade center rubble but this guy kept coming up with awesome stuff like: “Hey folks why don’t we try doing searches on our respective SMS systems for key words like, HELP, HURT, 911, SOS, etc.” If that wasn’t enough he came back with more genus stuff like: “Why don’t we try these SMS data searches in multiple languages as well?” The list of gems from this guy went on an on, but the devastation on that day and the days that followed was just too great and by the 3rd and 4th day you could hear the hope in peoples voices slowly sliding away.
Kodos to you Russ and the AT&T Wireless Engineers whoever or wherever you all are. Hopefully Cingular kept you and understands the genius that you brought to those tragic days!!
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Speaking of SMS. Some of the unsung heroes of 9/11/2001 were those genius Engineers from the old AT&T Wireless (now Cingular). I have heard 9/11 audio of the boys from Redmond completely schooling the fools at Verizon and their dopy mascot the “can you hear me guy”. That day Sprint and T-mobile had nothing and the then Nextel? Please. Nice crap iDen technology, falling our firefighters and police officers.
What was so great about what the engineers from AT&T wireless did? Well, some guy name Russ from somewhere out west presumably Redmond WA, kept popping into this 24hour emergency conference call with pure genius suggestions while the apes from the other mobile operators (Verizon, Sprint, Nextel, etc.) duh, brought pure lameness to the table.
Yes there were universal suggestions to deploy mobile cow cell sites and scanning equipment to try and get signals from the world trade center rubble but this guy kept coming up with awesome stuff like: “Hey folks why don’t we try doing searches on our respective SMS systems for key words like, HELP, HURT, 911, SOS, etc.” If that wasn’t enough he came back with more genus stuff like: “Why don’t we try these SMS data searches in multiple languages as well?” The list of gems from this guy went on an on, but the devastation on that day and the days that followed was just too great and by the 3rd and 4th day you could hear the hope in peoples voices slowly sliding away.
Kodos to you Russ and the AT&T Wireless Engineers whoever or wherever you all are. Hopefully Cingular kept you and understands the genius that you brought to those tragic days!!