BT strike could affect internet and phone connections
Tim Franklin
tim at pelican.org
Thu May 27 15:48:09 UTC 2010
> Internet and phone connections across Britain could go into meltdown
> as BT workers threaten their first national strike for 23 years...
>
> ‘Many business and residential phonelines could go out of action, and
> if broadband crashes then thousands and thousands of people will find
> their internet goes down.’
>
> http://www.metro.co.uk/news/828021-threat-of-bt-strike-could-affect-internet-and-phone-connections
I get a lovely vision from that of a real old-style manual switchboard
operator, frantically plugging internet connections together with patch
cords as each SYN packet rings a little bell.
Clearly BT engineers being on strike will stop broken things from
being fixed[0]. I'm very unclear how it will cause things that are
working today to suddenly "go into meltdown"...
Regards,
Tim.
[0] As a residential customer, it's arguable how much of a change this is.
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