[Boatanchors] Short Wave Broadcast Folks:

[rbethman]

I just went through having been taken off POTS.

It isn't correct to say that if the power goes out that you lose signal!

When the fiber optic was installed, it also comes with a float charger 
and a battery that will last for about 8 hours.

Bob - N0DGN



On 4/16/2014 12:22 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
> They ARE getting rid of them. AT&T has made no secret of their long 
> term goal to eliminate POTS. They want everyone on Uverse or whatever 
> the internet phone system is, and they are pursuing that goal state by 
> state with lobbying to change laws. It is only a matter of time before 
> you will get a letter offering options and POTS won't be one of them. 
> You may have a few years but eventually anyone still on the copper 
> line will be forced to give it up. They say it is cost and economics 
> but what they don't say is that the regulations governing the 
> provision of phone service are MUCH stricter and favorable to 
> consumers with POTS. And of course they don't say that when your power 
> goes off, the good old twisted pair still works, if you have an old 
> style phone, whereas that gee whiz new digital internet phone will 
> not. 73 Rob K5UJ 
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