On 3/11/2011 10:29, Michael Thomas wrote: > > Is it too soon to start to compare and contrast how voip > held up vs. tdm? Back in the old days circa mid to late > 90's, there was a lot of hand wringing about whether > voip would be up to the task of dealing with a massive > emergency. Well, we certainly have one now in Japan > on almost every front imaginable. > > Is voice such a small fraction of data that the larger > issues of cuts, electricity, etc make it moot, or has > there been some appreciable differences between the > two's ability to stay in usable service? >
My question would be what communications methods are working *right now* in the inital stages? (I heard cellular was down.) Past that, what's seeing service restoration first? ~Seth