Satellite Phones Ready for Bill

As Hurricane Bill gathers strength over the Atlantic Ocean the entire eastern seaboard is getting prepared for disaster. By the time this article was written the storm was just east of the Leeward Islands traveling northwest at 16 MPH with sustained winds at 135 MPH. This storm is still hundreds of miles from the eastern seaboard of the United States but is looking extremely dangerous. Every natural disaster with in the last thirty years has two things in common, one is that they required disaster relief forces and the other is that those forces communicate via satellite phones.

When the infrastructure of a major city like New Orleans goes down in a Hurricane, or New York City because of a terrorist attack, the only reliable form of communication is the one that doesn’t require an infrastructure, Satellite Phones. But satellite phone technology has come a long way since thirty years ago and disaster relief will be equipped with superior satellite communication. These phones are capable of not just making phone calls, but also data transfer, short messaging services (SMS) and GPS services. These tools will allow disaster relief services to get the help they need in the right locations in the right timeframe.

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