![]() It took about 15 minutes to extract both men.įrom the time the men got stuck to when they made it back to land was around 10 hours. “We had about 20 minutes to work with before it was going to be too dark to deal with the obstacles in the area,” Rodriguez told CNN. Steve Tippett.Īfter an hour and 20 minute helicopter ride they arrived at the scene. They packed up the chopper and were joined by DPS rescue swimmer Sgt. “It was getting late in the evening, so we were the closest equipped ship that was available for the call,” Hunter told CNN. That’s when San Antonio Police Department Pilots Garrett Hunter and Roy Rodriguez received a call. The game wardens and the National Park Service (NPS) couldn’t get their boats close enough because of the mud, Giles told CNN.Īnd when rescue crews contacted Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) for help, their helicopters were either out for maintenance or too far to make it before sunset. ![]() But it wasn’t until around noon when Texas game wardens located the boat and began the rescue. “That little $3 whistle is what saved us from having to spend a night out there” Giles told CNN. “All of a sudden I hear a dog barking, and I told my fishing partner, ‘If there’s a dog around here, there’s got to be a human.'” Giles explained.Ī dog popped up from some brush, and a man followed behind just about 300 yards from the boat on the Mexico side. Giles began making the emergency signal sound, which is three short bursts. ![]() With no cellphone service, the fishermen pulled out their emergency whistle. To see just how soft the ground was, Giles jumped out and sank up to his chest in the mud. “Normally this area is covered in water, but it was just mud that day” Giles told CNN. The value of the service market has decreased, although we have many more services today than we had in the past (most of them are provided for free…).That’s when the boat became stuck, and the pair were left stranded. It took some 50 years but today Telecom Operators have basically lost all revenues from services in favour of a multitude of OTT. I wanted an example to show how a little disruption can lead to major disruptions. I was reminded of that as I was preparing for the first trial of a course on Digital Transformation (jointly produced by EIT Digital and IEEE FDC) that I will be giving in the coming days to some 70 public administrators officers in Trento. That was, most likely, the first over the top (OTT) service in telecommunications. For the first time an equipment that was not owned by the Operator became an integral part of the network letting people transfer data (at 300 baud, 0.3 kbits per second). Sure, replied the big boss again.Īpparently that is how that entrepreneur started to sell his invention, an acoustic adapter you can place your phone on to transmit data. Then the entrepreneur asked if it was allowed to whistle in the handset using a whistling device since he was not good at whistling. Sure, replied the big boss, you can speak, sing, whistle…. as it is often the case, people tend to be more flexible and it was not unusual to see some devices, like answering machines, being used even though they were not owned by the Telecom Operator).Ī popular story I heard several times (that does not make it true, although the fundamentals are true) tells that one entrepreneur called an AT&T big boss and asked him if it was allowed to whistle in the phone handset. This situation was common in several other parts of the world, including Italy (but in Italy. No one else was allowed to connect to the network. ![]() Image credit: New World Encyclopediaīack in the sixties (of the last century) AT&T was protected by a regulation that dictated all devices connected to a telecom network infrastructure should be directly controlled by the Operator. This mechanical coupling device circumvented the regulation and started what today is the digital transformation.
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