On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote:
Once upon a time, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> said:
Not withstanding that, according to you, in some places the landlines "clipped the copper below the ground-level" I believe that vast majority of the country has working copper phone lines that continue to work during a power outage.
Not so much. As has been pointed out here many times before, many people now get POTS lines from remote cabinets that have limited battery life and fail in a power outage lasting more than a few minutes.
yes, this. in the last 2 neighborhoods I've lived in... near/around ashburn, va (home to verizon, mci, lots of telco/bell-shaped-heads) I've always been serviced from a remote terminal, that has often failed when the power has cycled... There's a slew of places in the US where you don't actually go all the way back to the CO on a single copper pair :( never mind the places where the mini-co bundles you up on some mpls/ccc/etc link ... anyway :)