On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: > > Premature and very dangerous move, the public is at great risk, only > > Sat phones seem to work when there is a natural disaster. Cell phones > > for the most part can't even connect to 911.... > > tohoku quake > o land voice phones did not work > o mobile phone voice did not work > o mobile phone text did not work > o land ip worked, adsl, ftth, ... > o mobile phone data worked! > > you could send email but not make a voice call > > How will you exactly "connect to internet" during such massive downtime? I mean mobile data is dead, and with dead landline I assume cable broken - then how exactly one can send email? :)
> just a data point > > randy > > -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com or simply - http://[2001:470:26:78f::5] if you are on IPv6 connected network! Linkedin <http://in.linkedin.com/in/anuragbhatia21> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/anurag_bhatia>| Google+ <https://plus.google.com/118280168625121532854>