Subj : Re: whoa... alive and kicking
To   : Nightfox
From : Retro Guy
Date : Wed Jun 20 2018 01:40 pm

Nightfox wrote:

>   Re: Re: whoa... alive and kicking
>   By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Tue Jun 19 2018 09:22 am

>  Vk> Here the POTS network is being decommissioned as the NBN is rolled out, 
at
>  Vk> least in urban areas. I think there's some landlines being retained in
>  Vk> rural areas where fixed wireless and satellite are the NBN access
>  Vk> technologies in se.

> For the end user, I wonder if it still works like a regular phone line.  One 
of
> the advantages of a land line phone was that it would still work even if your
> house lost power, so you could call emergency services or family if you 

My home phone is voip and on a ups backup, but I know that here at least, 
the cable company is required to provide battery backup for all their 
phone installations. So if you drop 'bell' and go for a cable company 
phone, they at least are meant to work for a while if the power is out.

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