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You want to them to email you to tell you your internet service is down? Er ...
by bonaldi 10y ago
You want to them to email you to tell you your internet service is down? Er ...
- Swizec 10y agoMost people have redundancy. Computer has wifi, phone has LTE. Usually different providers. I would love an email thst my internet service is down. Or text.
- dingaling 10y agoMany of the niche ISPs such as AAISP provide line status notifications.
- vidarh 10y agoIncidentally BT also has infrastructure or delivering SMS to landline voice numbers via text to speech - or at least had as of a couple of years ago - so as lon as it's the broadband service and not the end user lines that were down they'd still be able to deliver it.
- 8draco8 10y agoYes, because email can be received on mobile phone which is outside of BT
- charlieegan3 10y agoLots of people get email on their phones these days via a mobile data connection. Our DSL connection isn't 'down' - just really, really slow.
- pmlnr 10y agoThe mobile connection still goes through an ISP...
- simonswords82 10y agoI see the point you're making (and I did laugh) but a lot of us get e-mails on our phones and would still be able to pick them up if our ISP went down.
- _puk 10y agoFunnily enough I can get emails on my mobile, even when my landline is down.. Not sure if it is a complete outage, I'm having issues with many sites, but HN works fine - which usually points to a DNS issue cough