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[jbrannig at verizon.net]

 The central office battery bank is great, but without wires, and poles,  to carry the voltage .....pretty useless...


Local Telco's have been abandoning POTS lines for several years.  Fiber requires much less maintenance.


After the Sandy flooding, all of the copper lines in lower Manhattan were replaced with fiber.


Jim
 

On 04/12/15, Rob Atkinson wrote:

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 7:28 AM, <Jbrannig at verizon.net> wrote:
> Sandy:
> On Long Island we lost power for two weeks.
>
> I'm on a fiber optic network, FIOS, and the back up batteries lasted about
> two days.
> A moot point since the telephones require 110VAC to function.
>

Exactly. But POTS is on its own 40 v. system with huge banks of
storage cells in central offices. It stays up.


> Rotary dial, relay switched POTS service is NOT coming back......
>

Except where it has NEVER left, in Illinois for example. And I know
people who signed up for Uverse, then when they were unhappy and asked
for their old land line service back, were DENIED. That's something
AT&T doesn't want you to know--if you take Uverse you CAN'T go back.

That's why all the junk mail here from AT&T goes directly to the round file.

73

Rob
K5UJ