Well in this scenario mobile services are easier to restore or provide an alternative (MEOW / SatCOW for example). If a fire fuses all the copper together - that is a lot of work to restore individual services so this Mayor fellow has some valid concerns. An OFDF melting is just as bad as a Copper MDF Block.<div>
<br></div><div>Sure Mobile Towers/Cells use fibre back haul, but they cover a smaller area... and back haul can be microwave also.</div><div><br></div><div>Just my 2c.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dan</div><div><br></div><div>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Damian Guppy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:the.damo@gmail.com" target="_blank">the.damo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hmmm,<div><br></div><div>I wonder if these are then the same people who turn around and complain about wireless radiation making the children sick and giving every man and his dog cancer, or the 'visual pollution' that the antennas/towers cause in order to use them.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Damned if you do, damned if you dont.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>--Damian</div></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Jeffrey Sims <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffy@tehintartubes.net" target="_blank">jeffy@tehintartubes.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The whole tone of the article screams "What if the terrorists do it again?", You know what if the exchange were made of cheese would the mice still eat it? <div>
<br></div><div>We should be relying on Satellites and wireless, the crazy thing here is, what if the ground station of the satellite catches fire? What if the mobile tower falls over? It's all a large amount of "what ifs" and this fire whilst preventable with FM200 realistically, you can plan for every eventuality but where do you draw the line? At the tin foil hat?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I just think it must be re-election season down there because he's just getting on his soap box asking for Minister Conroy to make his town feel all warm and fuzzy with the satellite beams from the wireless towers who don't need power or fibre to feed them interbutts.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Damian Guppy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:the.damo@gmail.com" target="_blank">the.damo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hmmm, yes. We should all move to wireless because of an outage that cut both physical lines and wireless (mobile) services, that will fix our problem! Some one give this guy an award.<span><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>--Damian</div></font></span><div><div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Ross Wheeler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ausnog@rossw.net" target="_blank">ausnog@rossw.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Matt Perkins wrote:<br>
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Here we go. It was only a matter of time.<br>
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<a href="http://www.standard.net.au/story/1144950/mayor-wants-answers-over-telstra-breakdown/?cs=12" target="_blank">http://www.standard.net.au/<u></u>story/1144950/mayor-wants-<u></u>answers-over-telstra-<u></u>breakdown/?cs=12</a><br>
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"Maybe we should be looking further ahead at satellite and wireless links rather than relying on physical lines."<br>
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Ahh, right, because satellites just can't fail. And even if they did, you can courier a replacement there overnight. conroy is on record saying that "his" satellites "don't have latency problems"... so it all sounds like the perfect solution.<br>
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