John Lev>> 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.
But the cell phone is useless when the local towers lose AC power. Put it this way, I know that the NEXTEL box in back of our office has some big honkin' A/C units but I don't see any power backup at all.