February 04, 2002
All Circuits Are Busy
All Circuits Are Busy
When disaster strikes, that assumption no longer applies. Instead, the Telecommunications Service Priority system - a federal program designed to guarantee government communications in an emergency - kicks in. Administered by the National Communications System, a little-known agency set up after the Cuban Missile Crisis, TSP calls for circuits to be held in reserve for certain key customers - police, firefighters, hospitals, government agencies, the military. Everyone else gets potluck.
Posted by rshah at February 4, 2002 12:00 PM