[BC] Verizon T1 and batteries

[Gary Blievernicht]

If you are like me, and I know I am, you would discover that many people are / have already left terrestrial wire based telephone service in favor of cellular. 

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=18205

From: rj carpenter <rcarpen at comcast.net>

Could one expect that, maybe a decade from now, whole neighborhoods will
be without [FiOS] phones when the power goes out?