Emergency Broadcast
College and university campuses face unprecedented challenges to ensure the safety and security of their students, faculty and staff. Difficult lessons from on-campus sniper incidents and from the emergencies of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina have taught us that we need to have a fail-safe way to get the word out when it really counts.
Tier 1 carriers and cellular providers cannot provide broadcast messaging. There are only two nationwide broadcast networks and SkyTel owns one of them. Our Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) allows you to send one message to thousands almost instantaneously. You can alert all critical contacts when there is an emergency or mission critical information to broadcast, regardless of how they get their messages. And with coverage nationwide, everyone will be in the loop.
Easy to Send Messages
When a crisis strikes, there might not be time to log into an application to send a message. SkyTel makes it easy to get the word out quickly and securely. Send your urgent message from any of the following:
- 2Way wireless devices
- SkyTel website – and you don’t even need to log in
- SkyTel IVR to dictate a message to an operator
- The alert comes with its own email address that can be customized
- Right from your cell phone
Recipients don’t need to be mobile to get the memo. Messages can be sent to the following:
- Email – Instant alerts
- SMS text – What college student doesn’t text message?
- SkyTel pager – 1Way and 2Way can receive messages
- Landline telephone – Messages sent to a phone number are delivered in text-to-speech format
Instantly update employees, students or faculty with emergency notifications. The secure area of the SkyTel website makes list management by each individual easy. SkyTel also offers security features such as a confidential security code, and optional restrictions on who can send messages and when they can send them.
Let Recipients Decide on Best Delivery Method
SkyTel provides you with a link for your intranet site to students, faculty and/or employees can add up to 5 of their own addresses to the list.