[BC] Telephone--what's a telephone?

[Bob Groome]

Being a fellow that grew up in Florida, during hurricanes, when the power goes off, the CO (Telephone Central Office) falls back to a big As** battery. That would last many  hours, depending on how many people picked up the old telephone and used it. I liven in several cities and none of them would bring out a generator to keep the CO running ... except for emergency lines (police, fire and hospital). So we'd be down for telephone until they got around to fixing the power lines back to the telephone CO.

I no longer have a wired phone. I have my cell phone and my VOIP (Vonage) over my high speed internet (Comcast, which I can't stand, but no other choice for me yet). If both of those go down, I am in the same place I was in the 1950's; no telephone service. So far since my move back to Florida from the Left Coast (CA), I have not lost both cell and Comcast at the same time.

My two cents,

--
Bob Groome
cell: 916-705-0040
work: 800-476-8943
  

On Nov 21, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Dave Dunsmoor <mrfixit at min.midco.net> wrote:
> 
> Same would be the situation in an all digital phone system. Right now  
> if everything else fails, I still have phone service because I have  
> copper with battery to the house andI have several old style Bell  
> phones that do not need to be connected to the 110vac in order to