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IIRC - VOIP News wrote in messagenews:: As you probably know, one of the claims often made by the shills for the big phone companies is that VoIP is less reliable that POTS ("Plain Old Telephone Service"). Well, it turns out that's not necessarily true -- it depends a lot on where you live and which incumbent telephone company provides service in your area. In this thread on BroadbandReports.com, participants take turns commenting on the reliability of traditional phone service, and for several it's not exactly the "five nines" (99.999% uptime) that the phone companies would like you to believe. http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,10914037~mode=flatUnfortunately the availability of the switch isn't the same as theavailability of the service. But the many-nines numbers always referto switch availability. Depending on the model/frame the availabilityfor making a call is probably lower than the availability for keepinga connected call connected.When I had dial-up net access via a 24x7 dedicated analog-line modemseveral years ago, I had one call that was continuously connected forover six months. When it did disconnect it was because my ISP wasupgrading its modem banks. The switch(es) I was going throughprobably went through several upgrades and reconfigurations in thosesix months.Tim.
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