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Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras ralph at schmid.xxx> It’s not normal operation. It is an emergency measure that takes effect with > the network is in a hopeless congestion condition. And in my experience, > this approach changes the recovery time from several hours to several > minutes. About what numbers of phones are we talking here to reach a critical mass? Usually a phone transmits two or three access bursts, then it waits for a while, and I mean to remember some slotted aloha scheme, or similar. I hardly can imagine that such a condition could last for_hours_, but of course the real word sometimes offers bad surprises :) Ralph.