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Re: Operation Ghost Click


From: Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 15:02:44 -0500

Once upon a time, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen () 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 () hiwaay net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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