Us Government Wants Mandatory Tv Receivers In Cell Phones

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In our gadget driven country, are we no better prepared for disaster than without we were before we had these gadgets? According to Homeland Security, in the event of a tornado or terrorist attack, we are not set up with a better emergency information communications system than before all the cell phones.

US Government wants mandatory TV receivers in cell phones

How can this tech-driven country be in this position? The 3rd world countries like Haiti were only without cells for a short time and had an emergency broadcast texting system in place within 2 days.

A former NBC News vice president has the fix. This homeland security communications problem can be remedied by a simple requirement from the Federal Communications Commission that all mobile devices include a tiny digital television receiver that would work alongside the current broadband connections, writes Tom Wolzien. Since most mobile phones get traded in every two to three years, on average, almost every one of the 280 million mobile subscribers would have the emergency capability in a half decade or less.

What about the potential of the new Smartphone networks? Wolzien isnt impressed. The risk to homeland security is apparent to anyone who has tried to use a phonecell or wire lineduring a large scale emergency like a hurricane or crisis like 9/11, he writes. Because there are intentionally not enough circuits to go around, the system slows or shuts down. Mobile calls dont connect. The worst risk, Wolzien adds, is for mobile phone users not at home during a crisis. There is no economic incentive for mobile phone companies to provide emergency capacity to permit all mobile phones or data connections to work at once, even if the bandwidth were available.

So what to do to prepare for an emergency? Should we have a mobile phone TV tuner mandate? What SHOULD we do for emergency and disaster communications? Is the idea of a mandated TV tuner in cell phones just another way for the cell phone manufacturers to make money? Whats your take on it?

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