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On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 9
> From: RichardBJohnson at comcast.net
>
> Many areas are now served, not by a central office, but by basically  
> a mini-cell. Telephone coming/going to those areas have local  
> transcriber boxes mounted on the poles. If power is out in the  
> neighborhood, you get no telephone as a bonus. Furthermore, even  
> FIOS requires some active connectors (optical switches) which, if  
> the power is lost, you have no service as well.

Well, I am no expert in ALL states, but I can tell you this is  
absolutely not true in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia,  
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Texas.  I don't know of ANY state where this  
is true, but there may be some.

I have PERSONAL experience here.  I am served out of a underground  
vault.  It is only about 6x8 feet on the ground, but I got to look  
into it several years ago.  It is about 20x40 feet!  It has a HUGE  
battery plant.  When the power goes out, a generator shows up on site  
within a few hours and powers the vault.  In days past, it would be  
called a SLICK, but I don't know today.  Fiber is converted to copper  
at this vault, and I get my phone service from it, and have for 27  
years.  It is absolutely solid, and I only have lost phone service  
once, when a tree took out the overhead fiber some miles away.

> TELCOs have convinced the regulators (those that still exist) that a  
> power outage is such a remote possibility and if the power is out,  
> the lines are surely down as well, that there is no need to continue  
> to power the local loop.

Again, I am no expert in ALL states, but I can tell you this is  
absolutely not true in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia,  
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Texas.  I don't know of ANY state where this  
is true, but there may be some.

> If you want truly reliable communications nowadays, you need point- 
> to-point microwave links with uninterruptible power on both ends.  
> The FCC is no longer licensing terrestrial microwave for mere  
> civilians I have been told. Even existing TV microwave is being  
> phased out so there are no NEW applications allowed.

I am shocked to learn that the FCC is not licensing point-to-point  
microwave.  Please cite references.

> However, there are license-free bands that are usually reliable,  
> except during rainstorms, snowstorms, blowing sand, high winds, and  
> the whiff of cigar smoke. http://www.meridianptpwireless.com/#chart
>
> If you have a good visual shot between the two end-points, with  
> adequate Fresnell zone protection, http://www.terabeam.com/solutions/whitepapers/plan_micro_link.php 
>  you just might be able to take the so-called utility companies out  
> of the picture.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard B. Johnson

Yea, please cite.

--chip