[152693] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: POTS Ending (Re: Operation Ghost Click)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed May 9 12:16:00 2012
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 09:14:55 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0+aXZtSTJNfA+LyMmWQv_vWjk6e0qxmt6AFxp_aRzvXgXUYg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>> 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? :)
perhaps you should read a bit more carefully. mobile data was not dead,
mobile voice was. land voice was dead, land data was not.
randy
