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[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The move to fibre is great in many ways, but I do think there is some value in the redundancy older, simpler technology provided.

Analogue radio is another, it may appear primitive today but it's very robust. It's been an essential form of information distribution around the world during emergencies such as natural disasters, when more complicated systems like mobile networks fall over.