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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by FabHK on Saturday November 10, 2018 @08:07PM (#18424453)
POTS (plain old telephone service) is really amazing in many ways. Huge reliability, independent of the ordinary power grid, dead simple consistent UI, etc.

(I have an IP phone at work, and it's an unintuitive unreliable beast.)

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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by gaius on Sunday November 11, 2018 @05:01AM (#18425672)
Right. It’s no big deal for anyone if there’s no mobile signal but no dial tone is shocking. Even when there’s a power cut the landlines still work. I have probably only experienced an outage of POTS a couple of times in my life.
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