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Re: POTS Ending (Re: Operation Ghost Click)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed May 9 11:55:52 2012

Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 08:54:49 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>
In-Reply-To: <1336578283.37496.YahooMailNeo@web180302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> Premature and very dangerous move, the public is at great risk, only
> Sat phones seem to work when there is a natural disaster. Cell phones
> for the most part can't even connect to 911....

tohoku quake
  o land voice phones did not work
  o mobile phone voice did not work
  o mobile phone text did not work
  o land ip worked, adsl, ftth, ...
  o mobile phone data worked!

you could send email but not make a voice call

just a data point

randy


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