Internet and phone connections across Britain could go into meltdown as BT workers threaten their first national strike for 23 years...
‘Many business and residential phonelines could go out of action, and if broadband crashes then thousands and thousands of people will find their internet goes down.’
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/828021-threat-of-bt-strike-could-affect-internet...
I get a lovely vision from that of a real old-style manual switchboard operator, frantically plugging internet connections together with patch cords as each SYN packet rings a little bell. Clearly BT engineers being on strike will stop broken things from being fixed[0]. I'm very unclear how it will cause things that are working today to suddenly "go into meltdown"... Regards, Tim. [0] As a residential customer, it's arguable how much of a change this is.