TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Phone Repairs Continue in Flooded New Hampshire

Re: Phone Repairs Continue in Flooded New Hampshire

T (nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net)
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:13:21 -0400

In article <telecom26.109.8@telecom-digest.org>, sjsobol@JustThe.net
says ...

> In article <telecom26.108.11@telecom-digest.org>, Paul wrote:

>> 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.

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