Re: POTS Ending (Re: Operation Ghost Click)

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> > > 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? :)

perhaps you should read a bit more carefully.  mobile data was not dead,
mobile voice was.  land voice was dead, land data was not.

randy