And meanwhile, Verizon shamelessly continues its "It's ON!" advertising
> about their landline service, which was not even true BEFORE the > flooding!
> Airing those ads NOW is especially insulting to the victims of the > current outage.
It's irrelevant to many people, anyhow. My new Charter Cable phone-over-fiber service goes out if the power goes out. My Verizon traditional phone-over-copper line had battery backup at the CO, but it didn't matter to us anyhow, since our only landline handset is cordless!
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