On Call It's another tale from the world of telephony where everything goes wrong in this week's On Call .

Today's story comes from a Register reader Regomised as "Greg." Greg was the applications manager for a now-defunct telco, and was the throat to choke for all the applications in the customer-facing side of the business. The network side, where telephone calls were actually connected, was a whole other ball game for which he was most definitely not responsible.

"On my side of the world," he told us, not at all highlighting a worryingly siloed side to the business, "we

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