Mark Wood talked about the Cell Broadcast System, for broadcasting text messages over geographic areas. He’s the CTO of CellCast, & he lectures on Disaster Telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin. He also works with organizations such as ETSI, ITU, & the Civil Emergency Alert Service Association.

For more information, see hbmobile.org (currently down).

Video – Posted at Google Video.
Audio – mp3 – 62 min, 44 meg, 96kbps.

Edit: Here are some supplements while hbmobile.org is down: a new mailing list, a working mirror of the wiki (content dating from late February), & the mirrored meeting announcement, in which it becomes clear that the description above was swiped.

For more info, see telefono.revejo.org & hbmobile.org, & only slightly related opencellphone.org too. Share & enjoy.

Download audio, 43 min at 64kbps, 21 meg:

• mp3
• aac/m4b

This is an abridged version. The other two hours or so are much like the last minute here: several conversations going at once.