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Re: POTS Ending (Re: Operation Ghost Click)


From: Anurag Bhatia <me () anuragbhatia com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 21:41:46 +0530

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Randy Bush <randy () 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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