#telecomms

[haute-lifestyle-com]

Custom Market Insights has published a new research report "B2B Telecommunication Market Size, Trends and Insights" which includes a Global Industry Overview, Statistical Data, Competitive Analysis, Share, Outlook, and Forecast 2024–2033" in its research database

[chaiaurchaandni]

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[sabrocha]

wtf never in my life and yet

[energyprison]

Its crazy that rogers bought shaw like 1. My whole life it was telus shaw and rogers as da big three and now its just two and 2. I always thought shaw was the biggest and strongest of the three

[siscertglobal]

[pradamericano]

WE ASK THAT YOU OPEN YOUR NETWORKS TO GAZA نطالب شركات الاتصالات المصرية بالسماح لأهالينا في غزة باستخدام شبكاتها، ارحموا من في الأرض

@EtisalatEgypt @VodafoneEgypt @Orange_Egypt @telecomegypt

[n0thingiscool]

For thirty-plus years, giant telecom monopolies have worked tirelessly to crush all broadband competition. At the same time, they’ve lobbied state and federal governments so extensively, that the vast majority of politicians are feckless cardboard cutouts with little real interest in market or consumer health. The result has been fairly obvious: Americans pay some of the highest prices in the developed world for sluggish, slow broadband with historically abysmal customer service. Telecom lobbyists love to insist that often-shitty U.S. broadband is the envy of the modern world (it isn’t). They also love to argue that the only reason U.S. broadband isn’t even more awesome is because of “too much government regulation,” unnecessary red tape, and “bureaucracy.”

[ranticore]

visored longwing harpies & the hall of faces

I did say there was no exclusive global culture on Siren shared by humans of a certain body type, and I lied, because there is One.

The early settlers on Siren were the unaltered human workforce of a certain megacorporation. While an almost unlimited budget was poured into the dodgy gene programs, since that was why they chose to settle a planet so far out of the reach of The Authorities, everything else was done pretty cheaply, including the settling itself. In order to map out their new home planet, incredibly cheap mass-produced aircraft were used by pilots. These aircraft could be made quickly and easily at the settlement site because they lacked a flight computer or any real sensors - or any equipment at all in the cockpit. Rather than a multitude of different equipment loadouts on an aircraft that would take time and effort to swap out or maintain, the pilots instead used these visors which were universally compatible with the one-size-fits-all aircraft. It's kind of like how it's easier to just carry a phone around with a calculator app than it is to carry a phone and a calculator, even if the phone app calculator experience sucks by comparison.

The visors were the real expensive kit, each custom built to a pilot's exact needs and flight style, and they were built to last. the aircraft fell apart in the following centuries but the visors remained, hyperlight plastic powered by the planet's native star, and something interesting happened. The remains of the first settlement were largely inaccessible to anyone but longwing harpies, and these harpies had the right head shape to fit the visors. Many of the pilots had filled their visors with video and photo files from home, from Earth, like a worker decorating his cubicle with photos of his family. Some had been decorated on the outside, as well, resembling birds. The harpies that found the visors obviously tried to use them. They found themselves experiencing visions of strange worlds, recordings of long-dead pilots and ATC, and found that each visor can interface with every other one, no matter how far apart. Each visor came with its own callsign, its own name, which has remained for thousands of years - and because of this, each visor is considered by the cultures of Siren to be a named character with a distinct personality (eg. the swan visor was cygnus2, it is known now as Signastoo)

I keep posting the map and it needs to be redrawn but essentially every red triangle is an ancient telecomm tower. These became the only remaining waypoints on the visors' HUD and mapping software, meaning that 1. a true global culture could emerge, with longwings gathering at these sites, and 2. visored longwings became the gold standard for navigation on Siren. In a world that is basically just water, that's a big deal.

There exist only a few thousand visors (about 3k I'd say). The unused visors are kept in the Hall of Faces, the ancient aviation bay at the first settlement in West. Because of how water levels and land structures have changed over the years, this building exists on a mesa that rises another few thousand feet out of the water, with sheer sides, and is utterly inaccessible to anyone but a longwing harpy. When a visored harpy dies, the visor is returned here. If you want to claim a visor, you need to hold an interview with one of the elders at the site, who will test you rigorously to see if you can inhabit the character of one of the visors. If not, too bad. If you do get it, it's yours until either you die or you do something considered 'out of character' for the wearer of that particular visor. It is DEEPLY discouraged to steal a visor off anyone because it would be largely impossible, given how they all can communicate (imagine a gigantic worldwide discord server where the location & name of every person is known at all times... the drama is likely insane but at least if someone steals a visor, everyone will know about it)

not every longwing desires a visor because it comes with a lot of responsibility alongside its automatic prestige, and you can't really give it up once you have it. also there's always the possibility of being diagnosed with a super annoying, glitchy, or hated visor character lol. but among the roughly 2700 visored harpies on Siren there does exist a global culture exclusive to them. they chat to one another long-distance, engage in closed-practice ceremonies where they all get high and look at videos of Earth, and essentially become a class outside the mundanity of normal life on Siren. to the rest of the population, they basically become telepathic wizards

Terwyef's visor (first pic) is called Scrappercharlee and is one of the more common models, tho it has been decorated over the years with extra bits. Scrappercharlee is a bit busted and half the HUD is missing. Miakef's visor (second pic) Signastoo is one of the very fancy and well-known ones, it's shaped like a swan's head and likely belonged to a high-ranking pilot who could afford a bit of frippery and showmanship back in the day. Birds do not exist on Siren and harpies are mammals so the swan itself is symbolically meaningless, but the bird-style visors introduce the idea of 'a bird' in the abstract, and this has been imbued with its own form of meaning by harpies.

[severalowls]

They should let me sit in front of a telecomms transmitter. I think the darkest parts of my torso, who have never seen light, deserve phone too.

[cookiecthulhu]

i don't wanna go to reddit asking this stuff so i'll try my luck here first:

how do Minovsky Particles affect war-time cellphone usage? how about peacetime? we see Machu using a smartphone to look stuff up in the first GQuuuuuuX episode so that would imply that there is at least some telecomms available during peacetime

i'm mostly thinking about this bc i'm thinking of GMing a Gundam ttrpg and how it will affect the communications and information available to players. it would be set probably around Zeta so there are more factions around to cause havoc and drama

in Zeta and double Zeta they do use laser comms for some stuff, and i'm not sure if it's just because mobile phone usage was not a thing in the 80s, or if they had explained it as Minovsky Particle interference making it difficult or impossible to communicate with radio over long distances (latter is at least a thing during combat when Minovsky density is high but am not sure about out of combat)

ofc i could basically rule it however i wish, since it's my game and it doesn't have to be exact 1:1 mechanics of UC, tho i personally would like to have it be as close as possible

[hxlyhxlfdexd]

˓ 💀 ˒ ⸎ Under the banner of Necroism ⸎ ˓ 💀 ˒

Upon considering a world for conquest, the Necromonger Fleet first sends new converts and captains disguised as everyday citizens.

Their flagship is the Basilica, housing capital city of Necropolis. They also have frigates available for independent missions; meant for scouting and sitting in on surveillance.

Once the Lord Marshall gives word, the end begins.

Hurtling downward and wreathed in deep-space fog, these massive spiked Conquest Icons heat up upon entering the atmosphere. Standing at five-hundred feet they embed themselves deep into the planet's surface. Thunderous, terror-inducing. Their dropping reminiscient of meteors.

Total structural collapse of nearby buildings and lives, taking out telecomms, electrical grids, and mounted defenses.

Deployed from these ghoulish icons are three racks of fifty or so Tomb Ships. Rounding out for a four-hundred-fifty total. They're tiny, one-manned space fighters meant to overwhelm and finish off any resistance in the air.

Once enough damage has been done, Sarcophagus Dropships/Transports move in, supplying mid-ground support. They hold at least two dozen footmen, armed with gravity-rifles and pistols.

The third wave of bulk soldiers come from aptly-named, and gargantuan, Warrior Ships. Their dorsal-bodies folding to represent relief carvings of previous Marshals. Open, screaming mouths like the yawning abyss. Armed with enough firepower to wipe out whoever and whatever's left.

[r4spberry-vinaigrette]

Haven't played Slime Rancher in a hot minute, only watched some of the second' gameplay and even then never really focused on the lore of either of them, so if something you can yap, about Viktor or anyone/anything else if you want! /nf

GRABS YOU BY THE SHOULDERS. YOU'RE A GODSEND

viktor is SO so fun dude. okay so for summaries on the actual slime rancher lore -- in slime rancher 1, you're beatrix lebeau, who was sent to another planet 1000 light years away as part of a program hosted by the 7zee corporation! you get to set up a ranch on a planet far away from earth and gather slimes to harvest plorts by feeding them -- the whole program gets the plorts sent back to earth and they're used for a buncha different things down there. my main focus has been slime rancher 2's lore lately though!

in slime rancher two, as beatrix lebeau, you get an anonymous letter and -- following its instructions -- sail off to the rainbow islands to explore the mystery going on there. throughout the game theres these research drones with messages logged on them about this person who apparently has been to these islands once before and now, after some terrible incident, is trying again to explore them and "do things right". in the recent update we got clarity on what the mystery person's deal is but i'll admit i have some nitpicks about that whole story that i'll just drop here:

BUT. ANYWAYS. VIKTOR MY ABSOLUTE BELOVED. he's a slime scientist you meet in the first game -- iirc hes one of the first people you're able to trade with (there's a trading system beteeen you and the npcs -- every in game day one gets picked and asks for some stuff and if you give it you get a designated reward)! he loves researching slimes and has his own underwater laboratory :) if you create 50 gadgets in your own lab (a later-game unlockable) you unlock viktor's lab and can help with his slimeulation -- basically a VR version of the slime rancher 1 map where you find glitches and bring them back to him. it's SO fun and viktor is SO goofy. in slime rancher 2 he's the first to establish telecomms with you too! he gets messages from and eventually talks to what he assumes to be an AI, but it turns out its just the mystery drone person (aka gigi) later down the line. i wish the wiki had his dialogue dude hes so sweet 😭

[myconetted]

the president loves national security so muuuuch he disbands cyber security investigations into all US telecomms being pwned by foreign adversaries 🥰🥰🥰 thank you trump this is peak efficiency

[motorcycleroses]

there's a series of lakefront webcams owned by the local parks department here and i watch them on the nights when i can't sleep, when i'm stressed and/or when i'm simply curious about them. its fascinating to see who & what's there at odd hours of the night and to see the sunrise on clear mornings. it came up in conversation with a very long time friend of our family who works in telecomm one summer night. when i told him about the cameras he was blown away- immediately sharing that he was the one who set one of them up long ago. he had forgotten about them and was so excited that he pulled his phone out and put one of them on, leaving his phone sideways up against a bottle with the webcam on whilst we all drank for the rest of the night. one of my favorite little secrets was installed by one of my favorite people. what are the odds?

[merchantarthurn]

i think they should invent a holding music that doesn't sound like it's filtered through 2 feet of water an a 30 yr old telecomms system but failing that they could at least stop using high pitched piano because that translates as Pain

[caffeinesam]

Let's talk about the Internet.

The Internet needs a bunch of things, there's the software, the hardware, the power grid, etc.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Ok but seriously, you know that Gen Z thing about not knowing how a computer works and everything being an app and all that? Ok well let's get sidetracked a bit here.

I'm about to quit my railroad job for an offer an ex-manager sent me. Basically, it's a fiber optics/cell infrastructure mandate for a specialized consulting firm. The guys in there have resumes the length of highway 66, they're the very best in telecomm infrastructure.

And they're old. Youngest of the field techs is 68. One guy was over 70 when I worked with him in 2020 so he's pushing 80 now.

I'm 41 and I will be the youngest guy in the whole company.

The Internet has a few years left before we have to entirely renew a whole, hyper specialized workforce to meet its needs. Before we even get into the whole software infrastructure guys thinking about retirement, we have the actual hardware guys edging past their whole fucking life expectancy here.

And huh.

Well that's it.

Go learn how to build antennas and how wavelengths work, I guess? I know I will! It's fun!