Comment by patmorgan23
2 years ago
How's that boot taste?
Contacting emergency services is the one thing a phone must not fail at.
We mandated legacy telecos to maintain switching offices with a weeks worth of battery power so landlines could work in a natural disaster.
Google is a trillion dollar company if you want to get their attention you have to effect them on the order of millions of dollars.
> We mandated legacy telecos to maintain switching offices with a weeks worth of battery power so landlines could work in a natural disaster.
Not disagreeing with the topic at hand but this isn't even consistent anymore. When they switched to FttN for DSL in my area I noticed the batteries for the nodes only last a day before they die and I lose landline service.