First responders are accustomed to making the best of dire situations, in the field. For decades, they coordinated response efforts via two-way radios tethered to their trucks, which was far from ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. enters another dangerous season with a fractured national emergency response system. Katrina showed what happens when truth and trusted communication are ...

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I went behind the scenes with T-Mobile's emergency management teams to see how the mobile carrier responds to a catastrophe and restores communications. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. enters another dangerous season with a fractured national emergency response system. Katrina showed what happens when truth and trusted communication are ...