[EAS] In The Dark

[Mike McCarthy]

Legacy POTS land lines maybe if the SLIC and/or CO still have power of
their own as long as they and/or the last mile lines have not burned.
SLIC's generally have 12-24 hours of battery. CO's 24-48 and trunk lines
to them are often buried.

If you're thinking IP landlines by fiber or coax, very unlikely (absent
supplemental power for the modem) given many of those coax cables have
burned.  And the local amps and splitters need power too....which they
generally don't have battery back-up.

The only in/out would be by satellite or WISP with robust and fire
hardened microwave equipment and backbone out of the impacted area.

MM

On Mon, October 28, 2019 10:45 pm, Adrienne Abbott wrote:
> What about land lines? Don't they have batteries? Are those still
> working?
>
> Adrienne