911 goes dead again

HawkeEye wrote:

I've worked in the telecommunications field for many years in Las Cruces, and here are the facts:
1) New Mexico has one of the lowest population densities of any of the States, but is one of the largest States in area.
Qwest has thousands of miles of copper to maintain, but due to so few customers their income is relatively low for New Mexico AND Arizona. It's purely an economical issue...only so much money to maintain an enormous amount of equipment and lines.
Qwest does receive some funding from Washington due to the sensitive/critical nature of military bases, White Sands, and Los Alamos/Sandia Laboratory.
US West (the previous LEC), had the exact, same issue.
Therefore,'redundant' systems, fail-over equipment, etc. are limited by Qwests' cash flow. Plain and simple.
2) Construction 'accidents' are far too common. When Las Cruces City contractors were replacing water mains next to my office, they actually DUG UP the exact same 200 pair feed line FIVE DIFFERENT TIMES over a 2 year period. They didn't dig it up in exactly the same spot, but close enough.
These oversights by the construction crews are practically daily occurences, somewhere in the State, some jackwagon on backhoe is digging up a telephone line.
This has NOTHING TO DO with any Homeland Security breach, Jihad-crazed insurgents, The President, or Capitol Hill!
"Just the facts, Ma'am"

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HawkeEye wrote:

I've worked in the telecommunications field for many years in Las Cruces, and here are the facts:
1) New Mexico has one of the lowest population densities of any of the States, but is one of the largest States in area.
Qwest has thousands of miles of copper to maintain, but due to so few customers their income is relatively low for New Mexico AND Arizona. It's purely an economical issue...only so much money to maintain an enormous amount of equipment and lines.
Qwest does receive some funding from Washington due to the sensitive/critical nature of military bases, White Sands, and Los Alamos/Sandia Laboratory.
US West (the previous LEC), had the exact, same issue.
Therefore,'redundant' systems, fail-over equipment, etc. are limited by Qwests' cash flow. Plain and simple.
2) Construction 'accidents' are far too common. When Las Cruces City contractors were replacing water mains next to my office, they actually DUG UP the exact same 200 pair feed line FIVE DIFFERENT TIMES over a 2 year period. They didn't dig it up in exactly the same spot, but close enough.
These oversights by the construction crews are practically daily occurences, somewhere in the State, some jackwagon on backhoe is digging up a telephone line.
This has NOTHING TO DO with any Homeland Security breach, Jihad-crazed insurgents, The President, or Capitol Hill!
"Just the facts, Ma'am"

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uh what wrote:

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Lol what an angry little man. So what do your comments have to do with the subject on this post? USA USA USA

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Al Reine wrote:

<quoted text> Do you have a Reading problem or a Drinking Problem ?? Can't you see I'm one dumb jive turkey? I go on and on and on and see a conspiracy behind everything. Am I stupid or what ??

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Al Reine wrote:

<quoted text> Do you have a Reading problem or a Drinking Problem ?? Wake up, Dry up, Stop drinking the Liberal Obaa/richardson kool Aide ! Do you think that Governor Richardson and Prersident Obama have really done a good job in protecting America, New Mexico, and the Legal Citizens of this Great Republic ? My Point is; Wake Up, 911 wasand still is Real, and so is the SOS that Obama has been put into by his Corrupt Cabinet; What has Czar Janet done for New Mexico, Arizona, or Any other state that is on the Mexican/American Border ??

jaythejoke wrote:

<quoted text>you are absolutely wrong ignoramus. These services are built into SLA agreements between exchange carriers and municipalities...there are NORMALLY mulitple redundant circuits which are configured to fail over automatically. You very clearly do not know a THING about telecom. so go try to sound smart elsewhere.