but at least in the states, the fiber nodes have battery backup (and generator?), so no matter how your copper gets to your home, its covered. with a short power outage, the cable company has battery backup I think, and for long power outages they have brought in little gas generators by their distribution box. but the modem in my house for cable does not have battery backup unless I provide it. yes, if I had a generator and whole-house battery the cable would be good, but until/unless I install that, the ip phone dies with power outage and POTS is still there to call the fire department, etc. my mobile phone is good for a day or two if it wasn't low when the power went out, and I have a small solar panel that might keep it charged, but not current on other power backup. Carey
On 08/29/2025 4:33 PM CDT James Knott via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
On 8/29/25 17:18, o1bigtenor via Talk wrote:
One possible advantage that a copper phone line has is that such is run on a separate power system (I believe its 48V and they have serious battery back up). This means that in a serious power outage it is possible to still have telephone access.
Don't bet on that. The old twisted pair back to the CO POTS line is fading fast. Both Bell and Rogers run fibre to a node in the neighbourhood. Both Bell and Rogers also offer fibre to the home, where available. With service these days, your POTS line is likely VoIP over fibre, at least most of the way. ------------------------------------ Description: GTALUG Talk Unsubscribe via Talk-unsubscribe@lists.gtalug.org Start a new thread: talk@lists.gtalug.org This message archived at https://lists.gtalug.org/archives/list/talk@lists.gtalug.org/message/7BPUT6W...