Yeah. Verizon's FIOS in effect puts a SLC on your house, with a
> battery that it's your job to replace every couple of years, and when
> you forget and the power fails, you lose. The decreasing resiliency
> of the phone system to power failures is a real problem that nobody
> seems to be addressing.
I think that cell phones are now so prevalent that because they have a battery and are locatable for 911 purposes that few are worried about reduced reliability of POTS during power failures.
Regards,
> John Levine snipped-for-privacy@iecc.com Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be,
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> "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.