The FCC United States promotes an interesting initiative that will enable mobile operators to the national effectively fight crime and encourages people in the country to participate more actively in the prevention of the commission of various crimes.
As you know, in case of force majeure in America call 911. In fact, the call - it's the only way to tell that someone is in trouble. And at the same time in Europe for several years successfully operating system send a request using text. The text is sent via any of the available and currently active connection types (Wi-Fi, 3G / LTE).
It would seem, why write text when call is easier and faster? However, if you think about it, in some situations, this method using a query is much better. Moreover, in some cases, it remains the only one possible.
Imagine that next to you is committed a crime, but the attacker is close and can hear your conversation on the phone. Imagine being in need of help, for whatever reasons, can not speak.
In addition to all this, the system automatically records the location of the user when handling. An important point: often the witnesses of crime are not treated with a call to the police. Write in this plan is much simpler in terms of the psychological barrier, and it is confirmed by statistics.
The most likely platform for the implementation of such a service in the US is the Messages from Apple. Service is so popular in the United States that now confidently replaces SMS.
What do you think? Would you like to have on hand a way to ask for help?