A look back at yesterday's big news, with Ez Texting's CEO Shane Neman tapped for comment by the Boston Herald:
Wireless companies are bracing for a
flood of simultaneous cell phone calls and text messages that could jam
up the entire Washington, D.C.-area network as millions of onlookers
click, type and send at President-elect Barack Obama’s historic
swearing-in.
“It could be the busiest day that anyone has ever seen,” said John Johnson, spokesman for Verizon Wireless, which is using all available capacity at every cell site in the inauguration area.
“The minute he takes his oath, it’s going to be like a New Year’s Eve,” said Shane Neman, who runs EzTexting.com, a text marketing company. “There’s going to be millions, possibly billions of texts going on at one time.”
“It could be the busiest day that anyone has ever seen,” said John Johnson, spokesman for Verizon Wireless, which is using all available capacity at every cell site in the inauguration area.
“The minute he takes his oath, it’s going to be like a New Year’s Eve,” said Shane Neman, who runs EzTexting.com, a text marketing company. “There’s going to be millions, possibly billions of texts going on at one time.”
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