[BC] Telephone--what's a telephone?

[Cowboy]

On Thursday 21 November 2013 01:03:08 pm Dave Dunsmoor wrote:
> FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is a "digitally enamored" idiot. I saw an  
> example of how well an all-digital system would work following a  
> (minor) disaster. The cellphone system did not work for days following  
> the earthquake in Olympia, WA several years ago.
> 

 Well, we *are* talking FCC here, so it would be extremely
 out of character for them to comprehend the ramifications
 of an incredibly poorly thought out technical solution to
 a problem that.......

 um.......

 I'm sorry.
 What was the problem this solution is supposed to address ?

-- 
Cowboy