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Article: Text messages get SOS role Tsunamis put mobile phone technology in the forefront
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- International Herald Tribune
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- January 4, 2005
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John Schwartz
International Herald Tribune
01-04-2005
When the tsunami hit Sri Lanka, Sanjaya Senanayake found he could not make calls on his mobile phone or regular land line at first but he could send and receive text messages with his cellphone. Senanayake, a 23-year-old television producer, spent last week reporting on the disaster, frantically searching for friends and posting his experiences to the networked world through a Web log, or blog often via text messages relayed by a friend in Mumbai, India. ''It's a very easy, instant way to get the message across,'' he said in a mobile phone interview. Experts say that thousands of deaths might have been avoided if warning systems had ...