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British Telecom Plans to Ditch POTS Network

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-world-one-net dept.

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.

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  1. Fresh Meat! by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    Well, we've Slashdotted damn near everything else on the planet (as well as several things off the planet). Taking on an entire country's phone system, complete with big fat pipes and uber-routers that do QoS management for 20 million people is just the next logical step.

    Bring it on, BT! The power of a national telephone monopoly is insignificant compared to the power of the Slashdot effect!

  2. Re:super-DUPEr by Hungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its not a dupe, its the echo coming back across the transatlantic lines from the original article.

    --
    Bad Panda! No Bamboo for you! In matters of importance ACs will not be responded to. Want to say something critical,OK
  3. cereal box by goats_in_boats · · Score: 5, Funny

    so, like what, i need a 2.4GHz whistle for that?

  4. Re:super-DUPEr by madprof · · Score: 5, Funny

    64 bytes from www.slashdot.org (66.35.250.151): icmp_seq=1 ttl=1 week time=2 days

  5. actually sorta on-topic... ok, it's a stretch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.