Or leave a landline open & muted some time before the roll-over and keep it that way until the normal means of communication (mobile, etc) are available again. P.S. We are seeing an expected drop of traffic over a normal Friday coinciding with various people heading off for their millenium celebrations. Far below normal/expected trouble calls. Deepak Jain AiNET On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Mark Prior wrote:
"The phone system is almost useless" is perhaps less accurate than "the one person I have talked to has reported some problems with his office handsets" :)
I think in the Australian experience "the mobile phone system is useless" was pretty accurate for at least an hour after midnight. Landlines coped much better. For the places yet to experience 1/1/00 I would suggest that if you need to keep in touch with your NOC (or whatever) then be near a landline and give the mobile a night off.
Mark.