[governance] Request for Information [ICT4 health/ E Health]

[Milton L Mueller]

SMS is not Internet protocol. Just so there's no confusion. 

> -----Original Message-----
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:00 PKT Roland Perry wrote:
> 
> >In message
> >I remember many years ago talking to health authorities who wanted to
> use mobile phone SMS to tell where ambulances where to go (they call
> this activity "dispatching"). They became justifiably concerned when
> they couldn't find any QoS guarantees from the mobile phone operators
> about when those SMS might be delivered (you'd need "within a few
> seconds", probably; "within 4hrs" won't be much use).
> >-- Roland Perry
[Milton L Mueller] 


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