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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.