What on earth is PSTN?
Filed under rants, technology, work
So I take a break from writing about cables and signals and transmissions to see if my blog is still up and decided to vent. Okay, I know what PSTN is. That’s not really what this post is about.
I was just overwhelmed these past few weeks about how much I needed to take in, especially when I was in Lexington. And the more I learn, the more I realize how way behind my third-world country is in terms of technology. I consider myself more technically advanced than the average Filipino, but when these lay American people talk, you’d think they have offices in their homes. I could only think, we don’t have that in our mountain.
It was tempting to butt in and say, excuse me, but we only have three telecommunications companies in my third-world country and they don’t offer that service, so can you please bother explaining what you are talking about?
That should have told them how far behind we are, and to be more, uh, considerate of me.
Don’t believe me? Go inside Circuit City, and go inside a Filipino IT store (uh, what do we have, by the way? CDR-King?). The difference screams in your face.
Hear ye, Americans, how blessed you are. I wish you would realize that.
Comments
And Japan is about that far ahead of the US. Try an electronics store in Tokyo sometime… Sofmap, Yodobashi, Bic, Yamada…
BTW I doubt more than maybe 2% of Americans know what PSTN is. People use the (worse and more expensive than Japan) services here, but next to nobody knows anything about how they work.
i get what you’re saying. and so the burden falls on technical writers like us…
u mean public switched telephone network? it’s just a common term in the US but not here
did you know that our cellular network is more advance than the US? i
really? how so?
PSTN my a$$…
meron ba silang STK?
did you mean SIM Tool Kit? or Satellite Tool Kit? or whatever?
sinugba tinola kinilaw. di ba nasa cebu ka?
hindi mo kilala si No Problem ng mactan?
hahaha. oo naman. walang tatalo sa sarap ng kinilaw! ang mga kano takot sa hindi luto.
ddi you mean the mayor? hindi ako updated sa cebu politics eh.
sutokil (STK) food dun sa fishmarket ng mactan kami nakatikim. yung pangalan ng resto No Problem. ang nagmamanage “No Problem” ang pangalan. it’s her Motto too.
people actually call her that? at ano naman ang nasa menu sa resto na yan? mababawasan ba problema mo? i haven’t eaten there yet.
note that i refer only to the technology in use, imported from Europe, and systems used for our SMS is the best in the world, there are many innovations using it both from Globe and Smart, all pinoy-made
teheehhe! yes, they are advanced but their common tao mostly are not. Our telecoms are considered the best in the world kahit 3rd world. In fact, our telecom services are being replicated pa nga by European countries. 2001 I went to US and they don’t even know how to text yet, naawa ako sa kanila. LOL! Tayo naman, nagtetext kahit tulog na:) btw, i like your posts..do u wanna xlinks?