[BC] Verizon T1 and batteries

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Well, actually the 20% figure was for business areas during the  
business day.

For residential areas the number is more like 5%, which is another  
reason dial-up modems stressed the system so much.

The additional area codes were a result of cell phones, modem phones  
at people's home, modem banks at ISPs, pagers, fax machines, and so on.

Now, people have canceled their pagers.  They are using their cell  
phones.

People are canceling their home phones.  They are just using their  
cell phones.  I have ONE wireline phone for fax, alarm, and credit  
card processing.  I also use it for inbound dialing to my Apple  
Airport so I can get on the Internet from backwater areas.  I have   
Toll Free number directed to it so I can make calls from odd places,  
but I think I am a real exception.  Many people don't have a single  
wireline phone at their home.

People have LONG AGO canceled their fax machine numbers.  They became  
such a target of fax SPAMERS, and less and less useful with e-mail and  
e-mail attachments.

Also, for several decades it has been possible to have the same number  
on many or even tens of thousands of lines.  This has really eased up  
on the demand for numbers.  A modem bank of 10,000 modems, or a radio  
station with 20 main lines could ALL have the same number.

As such, today we could likely go back to the original #0# and #1#  
area codes.

It won't happen because it would cost money to go back, but boy, I  
wish they would.  I know where the original area codes are, but not  
the new ones.

--chip

On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 5
> From: Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net>
>
> On Thursday 29 April 2010 10:35:50 am rj carpenter wrote:
>
>> And what would happen if all 2000 tried to use their cell phones?
>>
>> Any service based on "typical" usage will fall down in the extreme,
>> extreme case.
>
> I thought it was common knowledge that all of the telco infrastructure
> since pretty much forever was designed for a maximum of 20% usage
> at any given time.
> That's why FAX and dial-up internet stressed the system so much, and
> also resulted in the proliferation of additional area codes.
> -- 
> Cowboy