>> 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,formatting linkex-Mayor
>>> "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.
Our local cell tower (looks like a 'pine tree'!) has it's own Big generator -- no idea how long their battery backup ridethrough is.