Verizon Gives First Responders Priority
Other carriers?
Has anyone else heard anything about this feature being put into place with any other service. I know myself and a lot of the guys I work with use Nextel.
Other non CDMA carriers had this in place.. now they're allowing CDMA to follow
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Sounds super spiffy!!!
Not too shabby, but I have a few questions. It says during an emergency, who will decide what an emergency is? Also, will people be able to use that *272 at any time? It seems like a great idea, but I would like to see some more details.
Its not like that. The phones have predefined priority. so basically if joey has a phone a he's a baker and billy has a phone and he's a cop, Billy would have priority to the tower because he's a cop. this is necessary because of things like 9/11 and ...
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Reliability
Hell, it'll be more reliable than Nextel. Verizon handsets were a scarce commodity down in Florida after the last barrage of hurricanes. On the West Coast they were the only network that worked.
Couldn't you already do this?
As far as I've understood you could change the access overload on a phone to give you greater priority, usually it's just set to the last number of your mobile number. So if you had a 1 you were lower priority 9 you were higher, and you can set them even higher. Was I wrong in thinking this?
