[152610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VoIP vs POTS (was Re: Operation Ghost Click)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke S. Crawford)
Thu May 3 15:26:23 2012
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 15:25:52 -0400
From: "Luke S. Crawford" <lsc@prgmr.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <51C66083768C2949A7EB14910C78B017018ECCF5@embgsr24.pateam.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 10:59:47AM -0400, Brandt, Ralph wrote:
> One of the first things cellular companies can do is stop overselling
> cellular. The second is end or raise the price significantly on
> unlimited plans, both voice and data. Go to what the landlines called,
> USS, that is you pay for every minute.... Even if that charge is small,
> it will drive usage down.
>
> Otherwise on a bad day people will die waiting for the yackers to get
> off the call phone so they can call 911. Hopefully it will not be on
> VOIP and the internet is down.
A few years back, I was working late on the top floor of one of the Yahoo
mission college buildings during an earthquake. It felt really dramatic;
I was on the 9th floor and the lights were swinging back and forth and
yeah. So, I went outside (who knows how bad it was) figured out it
wasn't that bad, and so before going home, I decided to call some people
to tell them I was okay. Of course, it was as you describe, I couldn't
get through.
what did I do? I sent a text message. It got through and I got an
answer back in about the usual amount of time it takes someone to respond
to a sms text.
It seems like SMS might be a reasonable backup during these periods of
high load.
