[126697] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Fields)
Thu May 27 14:22:39 2010
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:22:18 -0400
From: Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20100527191644.b0405ef2.david.reader@zeninternet.co.uk>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 5/27/2010 14:16, David Reader wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 2010 15:48:09 +0000 (GMT)
> Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org> wrote:
>
>> 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"...
>
> Quite, and.. it's not unheard-of for reliability of services to
> actually improve when no-one's mucking about with them!
however during a strike, the strikers will be destroying their companies
network. Think about a firebomb down a man hole and no one to fix it, bullet
holes through switch gear and the like. Unions fight dirty.
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