Kenneth Shaw wrote:
Obviously, you have never lived here in Britain. Here, a regular phone line can be down for up to a week. The day I started running a VoIP service, a mysterious fault took out my own home phone line and DSL for more than 24 hours, and BT never gave me an explanation.On a wireless device, yes, bad idea.
A regular style home phone, that doesn't need a full PBX, would need answering machine type features.
Also, if you want to take the phone company out of the equation or third-parties out of the equation, you need this capability.
-Ken Shaw...
Even British Telecom's nuke-proof underground exchange in Manchester suffered a major week long outage this year, even emergency services were denied communications, check out this article for some reasons why a VoIP revolution is needed here and preferably soon:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/features/2004/03/31/if_the_phones_failed.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/have_your_say/2004/03/31/phones_day3.shtml
Companies who had established multiple peering arrangements and IP based routing of their phone calls (using products like Asterisk running in data centers) were able to withstand this catastrophe.
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