knightmb
Everybody Lies
join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| reply to cwruck
Re: how many posts until...
said by cwruck  :Tell me it's flawed when you see the day when the problem happens. Plus, cell phones aren't reliable, personal experience, more than once, will never rely on a cell phone when I have access to a land line again, ever. My logic is not flawed, you try working in the business and tell me that it's flawed. Cell phones break easy, lost signals, bad weather causes towers signals to deteriorate, batteries die easier. 99% of American's don't get it, and those that do, well, still have a POTS line. End of discussion. I don't know really know if the issue is about logic. More about perception. You see a land line as invincible, where as we see it as another part of the network that can fail just like anything else. I do work in the business, I have many customers who use *only* VoIP for their business. Their uptime is as good as any land line they had before. It all comes down to equipment, backups, and reliable service. No piece of paper or 5 nine's number is going to insure that if lightning strikes a pole, the neighbor cuts your cable instead of a tree, or the phone guy gets the wires crossed, that 911 will be always be there.
I've seen the times, many times when a POTS line was dead, cut, or just not setup right by the phone company. I don't know where you get this mantra that landlines are infallible but I have news for everyone, they aren't! 
This is 10 years of experience talking, not just what I read on Google. Anyone in the biz knows that yes, POTS has way over a hundred years of technology behind it, but it's as far from perfect as VoIP is and that's exactly why VoIP is growing in numbers every day. Because "we" realized long ago that the infallible POTS urban legend has haunted consumers long enough is finally fading away. |
