[126678] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Thu May 27 11:49:44 2010
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:48:09 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <307305.95478.qm@web59615.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Internet and phone connections across Britain could go into meltdown
> as BT workers threaten their first national strike for 23 years...
>=20
> =E2=80=98Many business and residential phonelines could go out of action,=
and
> if broadband crashes then thousands and thousands of people will find
> their internet goes down.=E2=80=99
>=20
> http://www.metro.co.uk/news/828021-threat-of-bt-strike-could-affect-inter=
net-and-phone-connections
I get a lovely vision from that of a real old-style manual switchboard
operator, frantically plugging internet connections together with patch
cords as each SYN packet rings a little bell.
Clearly BT engineers being on strike will stop broken things from
being fixed[0]. I'm very unclear how it will cause things that are
working today to suddenly "go into meltdown"...
Regards,
Tim.
[0] As a residential customer, it's arguable how much of a change this is.
