Rave Wireless, Inc. announced Oct. 30 a collaboration with T-Mobile USA to improve campus safety. Through the partnership, Rave Wireless has implemented a direct SMS bind into T-Mobile’s network to further enhance reliability, message delivery performance, and peace-of-mind for T-Mobile customers subscribing to the Rave Alert network. In addition, the two companies will co-market the award-winning Rave Alert and Rave Guardian mobile safety applications to college and university customers throughout North America.
“Rave Wireless is a leader in mobile safety applications and the first emergency notification vendor to implement a direct SMS bind to our network,” said Dave Fredericks, national director for products solutions and planning for T-Mobile. “We’re excited about Rave’s suite of mobile safety applications and the opportunity to package those with other offerings to provide great value to our customers.”
Rave Alert provides an easy and effective way to send broadcast or targeted text messages, E-mail, recorded voice messages, RSS feeds and/or instant messages through AOL’s AIM to notify your community of important announcements. Rave Alert routinely outperforms other emergency notification platforms because Rave Wireless has taken steps such as direct SMS binds and redundant connections to ensure that all alerts reach their intended recipients in a timely manner. Many institutions including Boston College, the University of Colorado at Denver and the University of Connecticut have recently switched from other emergency alerting platforms to Rave Alert for its superior performance and reliability.
The Higher Education Act (HR-4137) recently signed into law by President Bush states that higher education institutions must have procedures to “immediately notify the campus community upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or staff occurring on the campus.”
Rave Guardian provides peace-of-mind and increased security by transforming users’ mobile phones into personal safety devices. The phone-accessed application can be armed, and when triggered, automatically sends the user’s picture, mobile number and personal information to campus police. Rave Guardian works on any cell phone from any provider in the U.S.
Rave Wireless Oct. 30, 2008 press release
