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Old September 19th 11, 11:30 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Public internet access on the london underground
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:51:49PM +0000, d wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:36:32 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
If a manager on duty can't be contacted from any significant period of time
via a land line during an incident then he should be sacked for incompetance
and dereliction of duty. End of.
Except we have moved to a world where mobile phones are just as (if not
more) prevalent than landlines.
Not the point. Mobiles can be lost, broken or the battery can die. There
should always be a fallback landline option.

Landlines can be eaten by squirrels. There should always be a fallback
semaphore station.

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