On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 01:12:42PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
Bell and Rogers are now both offering VOIP based home phone services. I assume that they have batteries to keep things running in the event of a power outage but It would be interesting to have someone on list confirm that. I remember many years ago working with an ISDN ATA device from Bell that had NiCad batteries that did not last all that long and had real degradation problems.
You could fix the power issue with a UPS. You could likely pay for the UPS in the phone line savings in the first year.
My new connection at my new house that I moved to (OK I started moving things) about 10 days ago has rogers fibre service with phone running on that. There is definitely no battery in any of the equipment. So the ONT and the router would both need to be on a UPS to keep service running. The router is doing the phone gateway as well as wifi and routing and all that. The ONT is just fibre to ethernet. -- Len Sorensen