Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: dl@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Pay Phones/Earthquakes Message-ID: Date: 19 Aug 89 15:09:25 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: David Lesher Lines: 12 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 310, message 5 of 10 > Actually, the worst thing anyone can do in a time of national emergency > is jump on the phone. FTS was created for this very reason. Seems during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK couldn't get a dial tone, so FTS used excess capacity at four (I think) rural CO's, one of which was in northern MD. With it, of course, you CAN get a dial tone. You just can't get a call to connect, or if it does, you can't hear. -- Flash! Murphy gets look and feel copyright on sendmail.cf {gatech!} wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (305) 255-RTFM