> Internet and phone connections across Britain could go into meltdown > as BT workers threaten their first national strike for 23 years... > > ‘Many business and residential phonelines could go out of action, and > if broadband crashes then thousands and thousands of people will find > their internet goes down.’ > > http://www.metro.co.uk/news/828021-threat-of-bt-strike-could-affect-internet-and-phone-connections
I get a lovely vision from that of a real old-style manual switchboard operator, frantically plugging internet connections together with patch cords as each SYN packet rings a little bell. Clearly BT engineers being on strike will stop broken things from being fixed[0]. I'm very unclear how it will cause things that are working today to suddenly "go into meltdown"... Regards, Tim. [0] As a residential customer, it's arguable how much of a change this is.
