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On 09/10/10 15:03, tom brough wrote:
Hmm the general consensus is that I should keep it for just in case of Armageddon, however I do wonder if enough of the telephone infrastructure will still exist to make even a modem operable? Given that main trunking for the POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) is probably carried down the same digital fibre anyway.
Well the last outage Virgin had in the South West area (that I'm aware of anyway) took down their TV and broadband service for a few hours but the phone still worked fine.
There is probably the plot to a totally unbelievable post Armageddon survival film where a (unlikely) group of surviving heroic IT bods dust off their modems in order to co-ordinate world recovery via dial up modems ... or maybe not.
I do wonder if post Armageddon things like telephone exchanges would still work?
Then again Holywood "Blockbusters" have been made on more flimsy plot lines than this.
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