[oclug] Disintermediate the telephone company

[Greg]

Rod Giffin wrote:
> chris h said:
> 
>>Wrt to transition to cellular as the primary services, there remains one
>>issue  that providers cannot address. Bell Canada when it was funded by
>>the GoC was  required to provide a system that is independent of local
>>power supply. So if  the lights went out the phone line as an emergency
>>system always remained  active as Bell was legislated to power the
>>system. This vital capacity  remains in place. Cell providers cannot
>>offer this service and hence the  nature of disruption in many many
>>situations. Just something to consider in  any design spec..:)
> 
> 
> You know, there's no reason for that.

It is cheaper not to provide independent power.
That is, more profitable.

> Cell providers, and Internet
> providers for that matter, have simply chosen not to power their
> respective systems indepenedantly.

A business decision.

> It makes for some very poor reliability, but to be totally honest I almost
> like it that way.  It makes it possible to escape some of the trappings of
> technology.
> 
> Rod.

Greg