BellSouth's Smith: VoIP no miracle cure for Katrina
September 20, 2005
BellSouth CTO Bill Smith reminded the VON '05 audience, in response to excitement over the fact that only a VoIP softphone enabled the New Orleans mayor to contact the outside world, that without electrical power, no alternative service is going to work for long, and most need to rely on the PSTN infrastructure at some point. — What a stick in the mud. As if the PSTN has does not also depend on external power sources at some point.