POTS Ending (Re: Operation Ghost Click)

Wed May 9 16:11:46 UTC 2012

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

> > Premature and very dangerous move, the public is at great risk, only
> > Sat phones seem to work when there is a natural disaster. Cell phones
> > for the most part can't even connect to 911....
>
> tohoku quake
>  o land voice phones did not work
>  o mobile phone voice did not work
>  o mobile phone text did not work
>  o land ip worked, adsl, ftth, ...
>  o mobile phone data worked!
>
> you could send email but not make a voice call
>
> How will you exactly "connect to internet" during such massive downtime? I
mean mobile data is dead, and with dead landline I assume cable broken -
then how exactly one can send email? :)

> just a data point
>
> randy
>
>

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