Go Chargers7
Fa Shizzle Ma Nizzle
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join:2002-09-24
Huntington Beach, CA
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Re: buh bye SBC
Did you just skip reading the thread? Perhaps you should read the entire thread before commenting or at least bother reading the post you're replying to »Re: buh bye SBC . Cordless phones and a majority of high feature lucent phones (like my 854's at my office) require 110v service. How do you expect to run a cordless phone without a base station? Sure...if I ran K-Mart phones they would work if Verizon bothered to fix all the other issues I had. Most people aren't going to keep a POS cheapy phone in a drawer in case of an emergency. Most likely they'll have an answering machine phone and a cordless. If you how is on fire...and you precious 110v phone is on the other side of the house...you're going to risk getting it? Of course not...you're going to follow the instructions of the fire dept., GTFO and call from next door. For other emergencies...you're talking about a lot of things happening at once...that just don't happen. For burglary, there is damn little between the perp and your NID, one snip and all of your phones are dead...meanwhile my VoIP service is safely underground via coax or wireless from a WISP antenna on the roof. After your phones are dead...sure, a burglar alarm could work...but that same burglar alarm is available with cellular backup which I had anyway. 911...speed dial then tell them your address just as you would with cellular. So now what emergencies are we reduced to...what far fetched situations are required to justify the existence of POTS? Bad BB provider...that's about it. With a little thought...just a little...all of these far fetched RBOC shill proposed situations can be taken care of.
Again...if you had bothered reading the post you're replying to...as I explained...I have no issues with a power outage should it occur. I make allowances for it just like it did for my unreliable POTS service. Of course in the 5 years I've lived at my current residence, we've never had a power failure...yet Verizon had problems regularly to make up for it.
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comcastech
join:2002-12-18
Saint Paul, MN
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With a land based phone line..phones dont require a power cord to work. If you already have a phone and it is does not require plugging(answering machine/caller id) in then it will work(thats why you can put battieries in some phones). Land based lines already offer voltage in the line. Companies like qwest and sbc send voltage through the lines when a number is contacted thats how the phone rings. Just like cable telephony. They require 110 volts outa thier taps inorder for the phones to work. Thats why phones that dont have power cords still have lights that light up on the phone. So in short..if your power goes out with verizon or sbc..you can still us eit..if it goes out with comcast cable & cox cable telephone services over their system you will still have phone. If you lose powere with vontage you have no phone. |
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Go Chargers7
Fa Shizzle Ma Nizzle
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join:2002-09-24
Huntington Beach, CA
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Well, if my electricity went out the phones won't work anyway. All of my phones require 110v. Besides, both my ATA, wireless phone base, both modems (one's a WISP with it's transmitter far outside my grid) and their primary router are on an APC 1400VA UPS and 50 watts, it will run for over 5 hours. So yeah, if the moon was full, the tides high, planets aligned, we're in 3 feet of water during a tornado...I'd have to break out the cellular phone. The rest of the time...I'm saving money and getting superior service with VoIP.
Screw the RBOCs and their antitrust behavior.
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