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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Phone networks struggle in Hurricane Katrina's wake
Me? I personally never trade my POTS for VoIP... - ferg -- Iljitsch van Beijnum <[email protected]> wrote: On 30-aug-2005, at 22:08, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > "In this age of cheap commoditized consumer electronics and > advanced mobile technology, why can't all the people of a city make > contact during an emergency? Simple: it's too expensive. Keep this in mind when trading in your POTS service for VoIP service over the internet. Discounting the local loop which is often the same in both cases, POTS is extremely reliable while VoIP over the public internet, well, isn't. But apparently people that switch to VoIP don't mind the reduced likelihood of being able to make calls during the next large scale emergency.
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