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British Telecom Plans to Ditch POTS Network
Samurai Cat! writes "Yahoo news has a story up regarding British Telecom's plans to scrap their traditional circuit-switched telecom network in favor of an IP-based system." Their press release has more information.
Bring it on, BT! The power of a national telephone monopoly is insignificant compared to the power of the Slashdot effect!
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
Its not a dupe, its the echo coming back across the transatlantic lines from the original article.
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when asked if the U.S. would like to do something similar, Bush replied, "Asia makes all the cool cell phone advancements, Europe wants to can POTS and truly enter the digital era, and we have Microsoft. Why would we want to change anything?"
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so, like what, i need a 2.4GHz whistle for that?
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British Telecom Plans to Ditch POS Network.
They wanna ditch their POTS while I wanna ditch our POTUS! :-)
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Am I the only one to see the irony?
Intellectual Property
Intellectual: of the mind
Property: that over which one has control
It's nice to see that the UK is finally kicking its POTS habit.
"We're sorry, the number you are calling is currently experiencing a distributed denial of service attack. Please try your call again..."
. ht ml
Even worse if you were calling 911 or 999 or similar number...
on an aside if you want to know the emergency numbers for different countries check out:
http://www.911dispatch.com/web_graphic/graphic1
nice graphic shows emergency numbers from around the world.
An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to report that her telephone failed to ring when her friends called - and that on the few occasions when it did ring, her pet dog always moaned right before the phone rang. The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile elderly lady.
He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring right away, but then the dog moaned loudly and the telephone began to ring.
Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found:
1. The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground wire via a steel chain and collar.
2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.
3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the phone number was called.
4. After a couple of such jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate on himself and the ground.
5. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to ring.