Operation Ghost Click

Wed May 2 20:02:44 UTC 2012

Once upon a time, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen at mompl.net> said:
> Christopher Morrow wrote:
> >wow, 1990 much? are you actually just trolling today perhaps?
> 
> No, what is wrong with using a land line, a rotary phone and enjoying a 
> reliable service? Plus a superior audio quality as opposed to the 
> compressed to hell quality of mobile phones.

As others pointed out, there are many digital codecs that are superior
to the audio quality of a rotary phone.

> Not withstanding that, according to you, in some places the landlines 
> "clipped the copper below the ground-level" I believe that vast majority 
> of the country has working copper phone lines that continue to work 
> during a power outage.

Not so much.  As has been pointed out here many times before, many
people now get POTS lines from remote cabinets that have limited battery
life and fail in a power outage lasting more than a few minutes.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.