[BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:42 AM 6/5/2006, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote: -------

>This is one reason I am so reluctant to "let go" of the twisted pairs coming
>from the CO to my home or to the station. They provide the power to make the
>phones work, even if the AC Mains are down for more than a week. The
>expression, "It just works!" really does apply to the good ol' POTS 
>we so often take for
>granted.

Tain't necessarily so. One of the New York outages, the story goes, 
was that the backup batteries weren't charged properly. Maybe 
maintenance hadn't reconnected them. There was a power failure 
downtown. Phones went out. It might be urban legend but it, 
allegedly, happened when all the telco hotshots were in a meeting. No 
one was minding the store.

Rich

Rich Wood
Rich Wood Multimedia
Phone: 413-454-3258