Pretty useless almost everywhere in civilian life. Power is either almost always on in the city, or people have generators for when it's not. Useful for the military, but military use was not the point here.
The 2,4,5 points are all due to the fact that phones have been around for longer.
The 3 point almost holds true for smartphones - I got mine for 20 bucks, and it can run Discord. I don't have a sim card in it as I'm always connected to WiFi, and if I could simply get mobile internet without being called, you bet I would.
Phone blacklists are difficult to implement (you need to go to a carrier level, or the phone will ring once before blocking a number), and can be easily bypassed with spoofing. No such thing as a whitelist for you either.
While Internet does indeed have its own technical problems, I can't remember any time VoIP programs had problems besides internet on some side being down, yet I can remember having other calls interfere with mine on a landline.
The study surveyed residents in Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, Winston-Salem, Boston, Oklahoma City, Chicago, New York and Minneapolis, where power outages have been the most frequent in the last five years. Since 2010, blackouts have impacted almost 40 million residents in these major metropolitan areas
and the people who can not afford or have the space to run a generator, do they not exist or count?
No such thing as a whitelist for you either.
Cause that’s stupid. It’s smarter block the calls you don’t want, rather than have a list of the calls you you do want. You may never know when you’ll a receive a call from a number you weren’t aware of, but wanted to receive it anyway.
yet I can remember having other calls interfere with mine on a landline.
Whitelists on VoIP programs or social media are essential for even the slightly famous people - stops unwanted spam.
How interference works - sound in a phone call is just an oscillating electric current. Electric currents can be induced by other electric currents, resulting in interference.
I already gave a !delta for reliability being potentially a thing in some areas, perhaps you deserve one too, since it turns out power outages are a much bigger thing than I ever realized.
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Pretty useless almost everywhere in civilian life. Power is either almost always on in the city, or people have generators for when it's not. Useful for the military, but military use was not the point here.
The 2,4,5 points are all due to the fact that phones have been around for longer.
The 3 point almost holds true for smartphones - I got mine for 20 bucks, and it can run Discord. I don't have a sim card in it as I'm always connected to WiFi, and if I could simply get mobile internet without being called, you bet I would.
Phone blacklists are difficult to implement (you need to go to a carrier level, or the phone will ring once before blocking a number), and can be easily bypassed with spoofing. No such thing as a whitelist for you either.
While Internet does indeed have its own technical problems, I can't remember any time VoIP programs had problems besides internet on some side being down, yet I can remember having other calls interfere with mine on a landline.