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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (136332)	12/31/2004 8:49:43 AM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 152472

Art B-- Huawei delivers aid in form of telecom infrastructure to 4 tsunami ravaged countries 31.12.2004 08:14:00 GMT Shanghai. (Interfax-China) - Huawei Technologies has delivered telecom equipment worth over USD 2 mln to four tsunami stricken countries around the Indian Ocean. Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will each receive over USD 500,000 worth of telecom infrastructure, according to a Huawei statement. The earthquake and tsunami so far have claimed about 117,000 lives in Asian and African countries. "Local telecom infrastructure was tremendously devastated by the natural disaster in these countries. And we have noticed they are in urgent need of communications equipment. As a telecom infrastructure enterprise, we feel it is necessary for us to do this," Huawei spokesperson Li Jie told Interfax. Huawei also has sales offices in these four countries. Li said they had suffered no loss from the tragedy. In September, four Huawei employees were injured in the bomb blast outside the Australian embassy in Indonesia's capital Jakarta. As one of the main telecom vendors in Indonesia, Huawei helped build Indonesian Mobisel's CDMA450 network. It also built BakrieTel's CDMA2000 network early this year. In Thailand, the company built the country's first commercial GPRS-PPS system last year for Advanced Info Service (AIS), the biggest Thai mobile operator.

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (136332)	1/2/2005 1:33:58 AM
From: JGoren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

For a lot of relatively small islands, wouldn't a further advantage of cell technology be that the cell towers could be put up in the hills, so they would be secure from tsunamis and even less susceptible to destruction from storm surges from hurricanes? A s far as storm warnings, it seems that like the weather radio we have in the States that receives a warning signal from the National Weather Service, the easiest tsunami or other storm warning could be by satellite radio to the police or fire or other governmental or designated office on each island, which then could turn on the sirens. That would lower the cost of the storm warning system, and reduce the governmental protocols of having to call governments.