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In reply to the discussion: “The telephone network is obsolete”: Get ready for the all-IP telco (AY&T wants to screw YOU) [View all]Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)2. More eggs in one basket. More fragile system overall.
Now a local failure will be able to bring down the whole phone system nationwide! And not just the phones, but TV and Internet too! All at the mercy of hackers or earthquakes or sunspots. What a wonderful world we live in, where our complex systems become more brittle and more vulnerable to failure with every passing year. We are so lucky to live at a time when we can actually witness the collapse of a global civilization. What a show this is going to be!
Of course with the phone and Internet and TV all blacked out there won't be much to watch except what you can see from your own living room window.
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DainBramaged
Jan 2013
OP
FiOS stayed up for 8 hours on the battery, but we were without power for over a week.
FarCenter
Jan 2013
#55
Yes. DISH dropped our local ABC affiliate two days before a significant winter storm
Skidmore
Jan 2013
#45
fuck those pricks. i knew they'd pull this. how we're herded into their approved corrals.
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#7
I can't speak to the rest, but the system IS already all IP on the back end. That much I know. nt
stevenleser
Jan 2013
#15
As one who just retired from the business copper will be around for a long time.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jan 2013
#53
Fiber, cable and wire to the permises is too expensive; will be fiber to the neighborhood + wireless
FarCenter
Jan 2013
#84
You know, the people who wrote this should have bothered to find out what all IP is actually like
jeff47
Jan 2013
#10
Actually, the problem you're describing is when the tower is overwhelmed with demand
jeff47
Jan 2013
#86
Yep, similar set up here. I used the router and a VOIP OBI110 on a large APC UPS. Then I use
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#60
And if they had plugged their phone into a POTS line, they still could have called 911.
jeff47
Jan 2013
#44
No kinda harsh is a lot worse. I get tired of people thinking their solution
DainBramaged
Jan 2013
#62
Oh Jesus Christ if you had READ MY POSTS I LIVE IN AN APARTMENT, 50 years old
DainBramaged
Jan 2013
#63
Do you really think the elderly can remember to keep a phone charged and then
DainBramaged
Jan 2013
#40
VoIP and SS7 Engineer here, ask my anything, this article was written by a fucking idiot
snooper2
Jan 2013
#13
This thread was about carriers switching to VoIP, but that is a good read as well..
snooper2
Jan 2013
#18
DB...some personal experience with "Bundling of Service" ATT/UVERSE ,COMCAST, Time-Warner
KoKo
Jan 2013
#17
Some in the population definitely have problems with it...Should they be Abandoned?
KoKo
Jan 2013
#75
Err...many of us already have IP telephones from AT&T. Mine was installed by a union installer
Xithras
Jan 2013
#58
No UVerse in NJ, AT&T pulled out of the market, Verizon is shrinking FIOS instead of expanding
DainBramaged
Jan 2013
#65
I see a lot of the same thing you do, everyone assumes what works for them is universally applicable
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#70
This is essentially correct, but take it further. Telephony, television, advertising,
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#67
if voip is so wonderful then why are they against code for lines that can not go down
dembotoz
Jan 2013
#71
I have a Sat Dish for TV, Another Dish for Internet so now I will get a Sat Phone for the house
stultusporcos
Jan 2013
#72
I have a rectifier, power conditioner and ups in my house attached to the main power
stultusporcos
Jan 2013
#81
We have a co-op here. I love it. We get money back every year. I also get our computer hookup
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#77