Re: Replacing PSTN with VoIP wise? Was Re: Phone networks struggle in Hurricane Katrina's wake

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Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 05:58:38 EDT

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    > But then, people don't really care about this, as cell is in the
    > exact same boat and huge numbers of people rely on just their cell
    > phone and no longer have a fixed line (in Europe at least).

    I have read accounts that suggest that cellphone subscribers
    from New Orleans only have one way service. In other words,
    if you left New Orleans with your cellphone then you can
    make outgoing calls but no-one can call you. I don't know
    how widespread this is, but knowing that there has to
    be an SS7 switch in New Orleans directing those incoming
    calls to your new location, I can imaging that loss of
    such a switch would create problems.

    A similar problem would be created if a web server relied
    on DNS that was only hosted on servers in New Orleans.

    --Michael Dillon


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