I spent a week in a PEMA conference last fall. One of the presentations was from two ILECS and 1 CLEC. The answer we got was, yes we do but no we can't. Got it? What I understand after grilling the 5 reps from one company and three for the other, is they have priority of who can make a call but not in who can get the system attention. SO till you get the system attention, you don't go anywhere. The ILEC is not in cell and admitted they had problems, were working on them, do not have them all solved, do not know if they can solve them all - they had some credibility. I looked at the other two as snake oil salesmen.... I was the only one who asked any questions. Ralph Brandt York PA 17055 -----Original Message----- From: Mike Hale [mailto:eyeronic.design@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 12:26 PM To: Tei Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: VoIP vs POTS (was Re: Operation Ghost Click) On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Tei <oscar.vives@gmail.com> wrote: ** Perhaps cell towers can be made to fail sooner, and enter some ** emergency mode where only 911 calls get service. ** ** ** ** -- Don't cell companies already provide over-ride codes to various federal agencies to obtain emergency priority access to cell service? (**** added just to piss off Valdis) -- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0