Frederick C. Blackburn again filled in for The Fetch as continuing network problems in the Philippines negated another attempt to do the show live.  As such, BB9 provided a backdrop about the unstable nature of international telecommunications grids as opposed to the original 5 9’s, or 99.999 percent reliability that was engineered into the original US telecommunications grid. Needless to say, with the proliferation of “packet data networks”, the idea of 5 9’s has gone by the wayside, and wireless technologies (cell grids) are often at the whim of engineersRead More