Originally Posted By: IzzyJG99
That's the good thing about SMS/Text messaging. If the text isn't delivered right away in the event of a down tower...it's cached on a computer and sent when it's possible. So that works out well.

Yes, the store-and-forward nature of SMS can be very handy in many situations. And to veer off-topic to another thread for a second, it's also why we should hold off blaming the Metrolink train engineer and saying he was texting, just because that 15-year got a text message from the engineer just a minute before the crash. The engineer could have sent the text message quite a while earlier, when it was OK for him to be doing so, and by some bizarre coincidence, it was delivered just a minute before the crash.