sporkme
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join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
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Re: No surprises
Funny thing is from at least 8:30 p.m. last night until at least 2:30 a.m. this morning, my Verizon POTS line was unavailbable via T-Mobile, Sprint, and VZ in Philly. Two rings then a fast busy.
Had to use my Vonage line to get through...
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Marilla
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join:2002-12-06
Belpre, OH
| said by sporkme  :
Funny thing is from at least 8:30 p.m. last night until at least 2:30 a.m. this morning, my Verizon POTS line was unavailbable via T-Mobile, Sprint, and VZ in Philly. Two rings then a fast busy.
Had to use my Vonage line to get through...
One question: Did you, during this time, have to make a 911 call by chance? hehe.. of course you didn't... but I'd lay odds that if you had, it would have gone through (assuming you had a dial-tone at all... it sounds to me like it wasn't really a problem with your phone line, per se)
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icecold976
join:2002-07-20
Orlando, FL
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| You want to hear something funny. Back in 99 when we were doing a CO office upgrade, the ENTIRE phone switched crashed. We were able to get 1/2 of the switch operating again within 15 minutes, but being that the CO was the central hub for E911, and the half of the switch that was down was the part that handled the E911 calls, it was a nightmare.
E911 service was down for 48 hours. Plain 911 service was down for the same amount of time. All I can say was the fine involved was huge. It was a software flaw that caused the cascading outage.
Some people didn't have phone service the entire 48 hrs either.
SO nothing is perfect. The batteries in the phone office only last so long, and the diesel fuel will only hold out so long.
VOIP isn't a full telecom service yet, so its going to have issues. I remember Packet8 having numerous outages lasting entire weekends, I have an outage lasting a few hours with Vonage and its big news... LOL
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