Oh, I agree. I'm not about to give up my land-lines (even tho our southern ice storms often take down our ovehead wires to the CO). And you are right about the CO's & backup generators & "acres" of crows-foot batteries. It's transport between the CO's that can be a problem, since microwave is typically cheaper to provision than fiber or copper for long-haul (MCI proved that & caused the breakup of the Bell System). It's also intersting to note that one of the advanages of IP over analog was the diversity of routing....
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 3:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Check out AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile Offer Statements On Hurricane Netwo But the CO's still have backup generators, usually well supplied and regularly tested, at least in my experience. I have *never* lost land-line service even in the area-wide blackouts of the past 4 decades here in the northeast US. I never lost it throughout this hurricane emergency either. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gross, Randall [Primerica] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 3:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Check out AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile Offer Statements On Hurricane Netwo Once you hit the CO, it's pretty much all VoIP. And microwave for long-haul transport. Plus the carriers don't have near the redundancy they had back in the old analog/copper days. It's all about cost... -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 3:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Check out AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile Offer Statements On Hurricane Netwo >>> On 10/31/2012 at 02:18 PM, "Blaicher, Christopher Y." >>> <cblaic...@syncsort.com> wrote: > If things get back to any form of normal in less than a week, it will > be a miracle. For some places it will be measured in months, lots of months. And yet the various phone company sales reps think I'm paranoid when I say I want to stay with my regular (copper) land line and not go to VoIP or cell phone only. I won't say I'm feeling smug, since the situation is serious for so many people, but I am feeling validated in my decision. Mark Post -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
