London incidents
Neil J. McRae
neil at DOMINO.ORG
Mon Jul 11 11:12:31 UTC 2005
> Some of the problems on the mobile networks were the result
> of a protocol to reserve mobile capabilities for the
> emergency services. The police have the authority to switch
> cells to emergency service and then people with specially
> registered SIM cards in their mobile can take priority.
> Presumably, some amount of capacity is also held in reserve
> for these people as well.
Requests from the police on specific SIM numbers on certain
mobile networks whilst others applied such that you got no
access to a cell site, others deployed a limit on normal SIM
cards to limit the access down by 50% so that there was some
level of service.
Regards,
Neil.
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