Astrid isn't POTS, but it is a POS. /snark What I was trying to say was that users are only able contact emergency services through POTS (and, by extension, GS

Astrid isn't POTS, but it is a POS. /snark What I was trying to say was that users are only able contact emergency services through POTS (and, by extension, GSM, obviously). The fact that operators and emergency services use Astrid was sort of beside the point. Although I do believe the last major outage was because of Astrid.