It is well known that in traditional wireless communication (air channel), there is a region where the reliability of the signal varies, until the point where the communication ceases.
On 1 December 2009, the computer abandoned one of the batteries completely and the following day communication ceased.
Despite a welter of conspiracy theories that MH370 may have landed elsewhere, the only credible lead was data provided by Inmarsat from the "handshakes" with its satellite after the plane's communication ceased.
The Brazilian controllers, it said, had failed to act promptly when the transponder stopped working, and two-way radio voice communication ceased.
Our communication ceased, honesty disappeared, trust evaporated.
Along the same lines, a senior officer of the National Academies ceased communication with me when he saw my essay in the Guardian about racism.
Cellphone communication had ceased; teenagers, their vocal chords atrophied by years of texting, struggled vainly to communicate, staggering around town, making zombie-like "Aaarghh, aarghh" sounds, reduced finally to scrawling desperate notes to their parents: "I hate you".
As digital networks have made instant connectivity a norm of business life, and as social media platforms have grown more powerful and more ubiquitous, a reliance on older, less conversational channels of communication has ceased to be tenable.
Four months later Seeney left the industry and moved to Devon, to marry her first husband, whom she had met while on holiday, and all communication with the factory ceased.
Since communication with the owner ceased before diagnosis, questions about possible herpetic lesions on her or her guest who had been bitten by the monkey could not be answered.
Under Section 1692 of Title 15 of the United States Code, once you tell the collector in a letter that you are refusing to pay the debt or that you want further communication to cease, the bill collector must halt its routine collection efforts, leaving only specific legal remedies to pursue.
