>> 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!
> Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows
> Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED
> It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.
I admit to having no battery backup for my VoIp but power here has been pretty stable.
If worst comes to worst I know a 13.8V car battery will do in a pinch and I've got hardware around to make a quick and dirty 13.8V generator.