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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 3:14 PM To: [email protected] 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." >>> <[email protected]> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
