RE: London incidents

["Neil J. McRae" <neil () DOMINO ORG>]

> Some of the problems on the mobile networks were the result 
> of a protocol to reserve mobile capabilities for the 
> emergency services. The police have the authority to switch 
> cells to emergency service and then people with specially 
> registered SIM cards in their mobile can take priority. 
> Presumably, some amount of capacity is also held in reserve 
> for these people as well.

Requests from the police on specific SIM numbers on certain 
mobile networks whilst others applied such that you got no 
access to a cell site, others deployed a limit on normal SIM 
cards to limit the access down by 50% so that there was some 
level of service. 

Regards,
Neil.