New York Times reported in the Sept 20 issue that the Blackberry network held up best, enabling communication to happen when cell phones and other wireless 2-way communication systems failed.

Headline of the article was "The Simple BlackBerry Allowed Contact When Phones Failed". For another day or two, the article is still available in the one week free archive on www.nyt.com. The analysis of why the Blackberry system worked when other systems failed is interesting.