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Speaking of telephone style networks. Has anyone noticed significant degradation in their cell/pager coverage/performance over the last couple of weeks? Or maybe I'm imagining here. Deepak Jain AiNET On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Nathan Stratton wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Robert Cannon wrote: > > > In regards to self fulfilling prophecies: > > > > The phone companies won't admit it but they are scared that at 1 second > > past midnight, everyone will say to themselves, "Hmmm, lights are still on, > > I wonder if the phones have stopped working?" and then within 1 minute, > > millions of people will be lifting their phones off the hooks to check > > dial-tone. You know what happens when that happens. :-) > > This is only a problem in some networks. Most of the time the actual > dial tone does not congest the system. As someone who builds telephone > networks I have to say that at least the 26 CLECs I work with will do > fine. :) I am more worried about the people factor, when people freak out > you can have problems. > > ><> > Nathan Stratton Tricetel Consulting > http://www.tricetel.net [email protected] > http://www.robotics.net [email protected] > > > -Hank > > > >
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