Mike the Strike wrote:
Both text messages and some 911 calls will go through with much weaker
signals than needed to complete a regular call.

There was a good example of this recently in NZ. A girl rolled her car
and ended 3.5m down a bank with the car upside down and supported over a
river by the bank and some trees, which were evidently fairly thin,
because she wasn't about to try getting out in case the car fell into
the river while she was getting out.

Her phone wouldn't raise anybody, including emergency services, due to
poor signal from where she was, but she was able to text a friend, who
passed the emergency call on.


--
martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |