hedge@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years agoAmericans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providersapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down10
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minus-squarebeefcat@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 years agoAnalog telephony was still built on a complex automated network. Those rooms full of operators manually connecting callers by plugging in physical wires haven’t been a thing for 70 years. They even started going digital in the ‘60s.
Analog telephony was still built on a complex automated network. Those rooms full of operators manually connecting callers by plugging in physical wires haven’t been a thing for 70 years. They even started going digital in the ‘60s.