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- Warren Riddle
Listening to Ra, glance at the notes and there's @AliveRecords. Nice cover, Mr. Boissel! @TheGloryFires #magiccityjams http://t.co/uT0M77VJ
- Leila Brillson
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- Joshua Fruhlinger
Misconceptions about LA. Interesting read, but kinda whiney. http://t.co/jEqHw3ts
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(Unverified)Nov 29th 2009 8:57PM
"In the days following Katrina and the New Orleans levy breaches, Sprint Nextel users found that, though voice calling was down, they were still able to communicate via the push-to-talk walkie-talkie functions of their phones. This is because push-to-talk is not routed through cell towers, but is direct communication between two phones."
This is not true. Sprint Nextel has a separate type of network for PTT that uses the same cellular towers but with different equipment. There is no "direct communication" between two cell phones in this manner. The reason people were able to use PTT instead of voice is because the PTT network isn't as saturate as voice networks, and because it has a more dependable infrastructure.