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Congestion of phone systems
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 19:35:43 -0500
It is perhaps a coincidence that right after being interviewed for the broadcast this morning on NPR Weekend Edition on Telecommutting I suffered one of the nasty consequences of it. Yesterday was in my part of Pennsylvania a major mess. I could have used my driveway for a luge track and the roads were unbelievable. Even our major highways were sheets of ice. So I stayed home and telecommuted. Well so did most eveyone else and the telephone system died a horrible trunk shortage death. Most local and all out of area calls got re-orders. It went on and on. It does show quite well that todays analog phone system (and that holds for digital switches) can not host the amount and holding times of telecommuters Dave
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