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Can't you just use the Internet in that case?
by lostmsu 5y ago
Can't you just use the Internet in that case?
- zbrozek 5y agoMaybe! But some folks would like some redundancy on infrastructure, particularly for emergencies. My elderly parents, for example, held on to a land line until they had both cell and fiber internet in their very-rural home. They wanted to have more than one way to reach emergency services (or me) in the event of disaster. I live in a more-urban area and am quite a lot younger, so I'm not as concerned about it.
- toyg 5y agoMost consumer-internet infrastructure is built on the expectation that only a small percentage of people will actually use it at any given time. Chances are a localized emergency will be precisely the time you see the limits of this approach.
- lostmsu 5y agoVoice and even video calls barely cost anything in comparison to full HD or 4k video from Netflix.