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First off I would like to respond to Crawley. Blackberry messaging even if a push can take up to 5 minutes to deliver, even using pin communication and requires moderate signal strength. However text messaging is almost real time, available on the smallest amount of signal to communicate. IE possibly even under city streets or in hospitals where they commonly have lead walls for equipment protection. Now the for the response to those who don't understand why anyone would text? What you either can't figure out how to use it or have never tried it! I could really care less which. Just go ahead and ask the people that were still in or around any of the hardest hit areas of Katrina and you will see they couldn't make a call or send an email, but they could allow their families some form of communication through a text message. Infact for the following months that was almost 80% of the network load because so much of the bandwidth was reserved for emergancy services and for good reason.