[LINK] Is the NBN Ready for Extreme Weather?

[Kim Holburn]

On 2012/Dec/06, at 7:26 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> 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.

Except the "mobile network" is not a single network, it's a number of parallel competing networks.  If we could use any cell then we wouldn't have that problem.

Kim

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