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Technology Stocks : The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum
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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3410)7/22/2001 10:30:31 AM
From: GraceZ  Read Replies (1) of 46821
 
Customers have sort of built in a certain amount of redundancy in their copper and other connections. When some vandals pulled out the cable from the telephone box into my studio with all my land lines, I called the phone company on my cell phone. The phone company re-routed all my calls to the cell phone immediately until the repair person showed up. When my DSL line went down I called up on my fax line to have it fixed. The time my Sprint mailbox went down I had my calls forwarded to the fax line (my fax doubles as an answering machine).

The story you told of the CO building burning in Greenwich Village that left everyone without phone service wouldn't have the same effect today with so many people having cell phones.....although it might bring down the cell phone network temporarily because of the instantaneous added load.

Several posts back you mentioned that the Internet has had the effect that people have come to expect a degree of unreliability. This unreliability has lead many to spread their bets across several connection alternatives. At any given point I have at least four CDs with Internet offers sitting close at hand in case my main ISP goes down. Back in the bad old days of dial up (my apologies to those still in the dial up world) I actually paid for two providers so I'd have one that worked at all times. I have to say in the last two years things have become more reliable. I encounter fewer and fewer instances where ATM machines are down, or websites unavailable and it is a rare occurrence when either my DSL or @Home connection is down. My home electricity has been down more than my network connections! During the thunderstorm season it's not unusual to have three to four multi-hour long blackouts in electricity. But then after Y2K it's really easy to find a cheap used gasoline powered back up generator around here and the propane powered grill comes in handy if you don't mind cooking under an umbrella.
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