[LINK] Is the NBN Ready for Extreme Weather?

Jan Whitaker jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Thu Dec 6 19:26:01 AEDT 2012


At 06:59 PM 6/12/2012, Jan Whitaker wrote:

>Does the poor quality of radio based calls (technical, not content)
>to talk-back radio provide any evidence you would accept? I don't
>think studies are needed -- experience shows that mobiles are not at
>the same quality of services as PSTN, and neither are portable phones.
>
>Jan
>(who has heard too many drop-outs, screeches, squeals, and dead
>silence on calls just when the discussion was getting interesting)

Following up why this is the case:

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/mobile-traffic-jams-set-to-continue-as-users-soar-20121206-2ax6e.html

Overload. This has nothing to do with 'weather' -- there are just too 
many on an 'over-sold' network.

Jan



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