Re Ironraven



I don't really understand that assumption. Is it that most people in the United States assume that International telephone calls are made using Satellite communications. Most calls from the US to Europe use very robust and reliable submarine cables. These cables were first laid under the North Atlantic over 100 years ago by the United Kingdom. The rest of the world was connected up in a similar way, all the way through the middle east through India and Australia. A sort of World Wide Web for the British Empire. At the moment there is huge voice / data capacity under the Atlantic via submarine cables. In fact if there was a wide power outage across the world, someone in New York will probably have more success calling Edinburgh rather than Los Angles. It might be that the LA call from New York may have to be made the long way around.