I just received an email entitled "A message to Verizon customers affected by Hurricane Sandy". Since I have a DSL line, the email told me that my service would go out along with the power if the electric feeds go dark. No surprise there, of course, since my DSL modem uses AC, but I wonder if Verizon was warning me that /their/ equipment won't have power, i.e., if there's some intermediate vault that will be out of service without commercial power. The policy used to be that every node was backed up, but I don't know if that has changed.
It also warned FiOS customers that their Internet access would be cut off, since the battery back-ups in the FiOS ONT's only provide voice service. I'm wondering why that is so: how much of a "Delta" is there between an ONT that's providing a POTS jack vs. one that's providing Internet and/or TV?
Bill