Like many of you today I woke up and was unable to make a phone call from my mobile. At first I thought the phone was broken as it has been crashing a bit lately, but after resorting to a landline and then surfing the internet via a landline based ADSL connection I discovered that O2s network for most of the South East of England is down due to an
'equipment theft'.
This is just another reason why being completely reliant on a mobile phone is always going to result in tragedy, and no matter how hard the industry argues, landlines cannot be fully replaced with a 'cellular' network.
So take today as a warning, mobile networks fail, and they fail bad. The landline phone is still king.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/31/burne_house_burns/
ReplyDeleteThe BT landline system is just as prone to such incidents as well.
For mobiles your have the option of swapping the sim card
Emergency calls would go via another operator if you had needed to call 999, something that can't happen with fixed lines.