[152692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: POTS Ending (Re: Operation Ghost Click)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anurag Bhatia)
Wed May 9 12:13:08 2012
In-Reply-To: <m2sjf9z6wm.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 21:41:46 +0530
From: Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> How will you exactly "connect to internet" during such massive downtime? I
mean mobile data is dead, and with dead landline I assume cable broken -
then how exactly one can send email? :)
> just a data point
>
> randy
>
>
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