April 23, 2007
New Text Messaging Alert System for Campuses can be installed in 2 hours
Agile Communications has developed a text messaging system that can be installed on any college or university campus in under two hours and costs the school nothing until it is used.
"Our system could have alerted every Virginia Tech student, every faculty member, every staff member of the emergency -- all 26,000 people -- in as little as a minute and fifteen seconds," said Rick Bowen, director of business development for the Tampa-based Agile Communications Group.
There are no unsolicited, annoying -- and expensive -- commercial text messages popping up on a daily basis on the cell phones of system participants.
When Agile is activated, text messages are blasted to every phone on a university's system with emergency updates and safety directives, regardless of the network provider.
Unlike most of its competitors, Agile's is a two-way service, allowing the recipient of a text message to respond, perhaps with information critical to the situation.
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