Telecommunications as a whole, which also encompasses The Internet, is in a constant state of failure and just in time fixes and functionally all modern communication would collapse if about 50 people, most of which are furries, decided to turn their pager off for a day.
So a few folks have asked for more information.
On the first part: The Internet and telephone systems of today are codependent and the Internet is an incredibly fragile thing that constantly breaks in hundreds of different ways on the daily because of the scale of it.
On the first part: The Internet and telephone systems of today are codependent and the Internet is an incredibly fragile thing that constantly breaks in hundreds of different ways on the daily because of the scale of it.
Support of this is seen as a cost center and is cut to the bone as far as humanly possible without it visibly failing. Anyone that works in a NOC will tell you that 24/7 globally, some major part of the internet, somewhere, is busted and waiting on an oncall engineer to fix.
So the least possible number of people are used to maintain one of the most complex systems to ever exist and it's on fire 90% of the time and the only reason why anything works is because someone got texted about it and fixed it while eating supper.
Your phones? All extensions of the internet now. Cell phones, land lines, 99% of what you see is some flavor of Voice Over IP carried on the INternet. Even Land Mobile Radios and walkie talkies are VOIP now. Even that old copper line that grandma has is converted somewhere.
And furries? Furries have always run the internet since bulletin board days. Furries had a dedicated ISP before the White House got internet service. They are also heavily present in the amateur radio scene.
Between the two, a lot of furries turned their hobby in tech into day jobs in the early days of the field, then trained their friends to get jobs at the places they worked, who were also furries, and that's continued for 30 years now, across the globe.
