[kictanet] Flight KQ 507: Did the Media cross the line?

[Alex Gakuru]

This satellite-GSM technology already exists, but I wonder how many listmates even know they can make free emergency calls from their handsets?  These calls locate the nearest GSM mast, bounced  to the closest satellite and routed to the caller's closest police station around the world.

Trust me to have tested it; my test worked in some places outside Nairobi where it always reports busy. Through a little bit of politics? NO! I will leave it out.

I should imagine airborne crafts, closer to satellites, should easily incorporate a GPS cordinates sms-based feature that send an sms reporting their GPS position routinely? Maybe when a foreign genious proposes it.(Couldn't help that one ;-)  

"The telephone number 112 is the international emergency telephone number for GSM mobile phone networks. It does not necessarily work on mobile phone networks based on other technologies. In all European Union countries it is also the emergency telephone number for both mobile and fixed-line telephones."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_telephone_number

Thanks,

Alex

Kagwe James <JKagwe at aforbes.co.ke> wrote: Just concerned and probably out of context as far as the discussions
we've been having are concerned. Isn't there a technology, probably GPRS
based that can be used to track aeroplanes all over the world?

Just like the way car track traces cars using GPRS. Is it possible to
have such to track and trace aeroplanes. The time it took to trace the
KQ plane was quite worrying and given that aeroplanes traverse deserts,
seas and forests, then a system like this would make a difference in the
time that it takes to trace a plane and probably save peoples lives.

Just a view, no politics please!!!!!!!  

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Of Wainaina Mungai
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:19 PM
To: Kagwe James
Subject: [kictanet] Flight KQ 507: Did the Media cross the line?

Was the media insensitive and offensive as they competed to air and
publish reports of the flight KQ507 crash?
 
Read about it on  http://www.madeinkenya.org/forum_files/forum0507-2.php


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