We rarely even lock our doors when we go out, makes coming back in so easy.
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Tony B <[email protected]> wrote: > No, you're thinking of the old landlines of the 50's and 60's. Today > they're over-shared the same as everything else and are probably about > as reliable in an emergency. I mean, there are different types of > emergencies. A 9/11 event will clog all the services. But an accident > in your bathroom can likely be handled via cell/voip as reliably as a > landline. Maybe better if you have your cell phone with you and don't > have to crawl to the nearest phone. But then, how many of us leave our > doors unlocked, so you'll still have to crawl to the door to unlock > it. > > > > Could it be that a landline system provides a reliable and therefore > > perhaps even necessary parallel communications system to cell phones > > in the event of emergency situations? Could that constitute a > > national or regional security issue? I recall that in numerous > > emergencies, cell phone systems exhibited failures because of high > > usage levels and/or power outages. VOIP is used to provide further > > indication that landlines should be done away with. Isn't it true > > that VOIP cannot generally be used to access the 911 system? That > > could be a bummer. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
