Why isn't the current (voice) phone system considered a danger to national security? Clearly it fails in any large enough crisis. If the telcos would accelerate their switch to an IP based network (which is going to happen anyway) they could solve the problem by scaling back services in times of huge demand (most likely during some major crisis.) Instead of millions of simultaneous voice calls bringing the whole system to a complete stop, the telcos could just drop voice service during such peak times and people would have to use SMS. Not as good as voice maybe, but infinitely better than nothing (which is what most people had in NYC on 9/11.)

Shouldn't they really do this?
- jim 4-01-2004 5:39 pm




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