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Re:Iowa 911 Call Center Nation First To Accept Emergency Txts by nirmal on Friday August 07, 2009 @11:03AM (#747676)
I've done some work in this area. We enable the caller to text but all of the data transmission done over the voice channel. This allows for locating the call, a live conversation and it could be made compatible with all 911 centers.

Our users are deaf but anyone could use this.

See http://nirmalpatel.com/research/deaf911.html

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Re:Iowa 911 Call Center Nation First To Accept Emergency Txts by ergbvreg on Friday August 07, 2009 @11:25AM (#747718)
About time. Many people's lives have been saved by being able to send a text to a friend from somewhere in the backcountry / offshore where they couldn't make a call but there was enough signal for a txt.
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Re:Iowa 911 Call Center Nation First To Accept Emergency Txts by elliottkember on Friday August 07, 2009 @09:58AM (#747560)
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Re:Iowa 911 Call Center Nation First To Accept Emergency Txts by kingsley_20 on Friday August 07, 2009 @12:46PM (#747928)
One obvious use is for when you have an intruder in your apartment.
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