[BC] Verizon T1 and batteries

[Ron Youvan]

Gary Blievernicht wrote:

> 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?

   There have long been 200 lines going to a "rotary device" in the some what remote neighborhoods 
that supply telephone service to perhaps 2,000 houses.  If a plane crashed nearby, 90% of the people 
would get a busy signal instead of a dial tone.

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Ron KA4INM