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Who cares about reliability, it is not as if lives depend on it. /s If I look at the availability of phone service in my home (German metro area, cable) it is
by heisenbit 5y ago
Who cares about reliability, it is not as if lives depend on it. /s
If I look at the availability of phone service in my home (German metro area, cable) it is way below anyone would gave dared to provide in the TDM/ISDN times. I strongly believe only the redundancies people have with also having a mobile phone has allowed this to continue with lives being lost and regulators clamping down.
- Symbiote 5y agoAre there statistics, or is this personal experience? I've never had a landline phone fail, but I also haven't had one for about 12 years.
- cafard 5y agoI have had a landline phone fail--a tree fell over on the next block down and took the wires along. Also, many years ago, I was in a building where we found the phones would work without power, but they wouldn't ring. While waiting to go home, we would resort to "polling"--pick up a line and see whether anyone was on it.