READER CARLOS MYERS WRITES: “The one thing that the August 23 earthquake demonstrated is just how vulnerable and unreliable our cellular networks really are during an ’emergency.'” Well, pretty much any communications network will fail if everyone tries to use it at once. Note that text messages often get through when voice connections fail.
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