Maybe an NID with an integrated phone and a hand-crank-generator so you can always crank it to make a call :) On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:59 PM, William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jack Bates<jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
I've yet to hear an ILEC suggest that they not have batteries in the NID to support the voice in power outages.
The battery in my FTTH NID is completely useless. It maintains the voice side of the NID but drops the Internet side. Only, I cancelled the POTS service years ago and use a Vonage phone. So now I need a second UPS for the already-battery-backed NID or I lose phone service. Brilliant design that.
IIRC, when my FTTH was installed, I was told: here's the battery. It's now your problem. When this light goes red, call the number here to BUY a new one.
Folks handle batteries for their flashlights and emergency radios and cars and cordless phones. I fail to understand why asking the customer to handle one more battery would stymie them.
Regards, Bill Herrin
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