[BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...

[Wooten, Charles]

The other side of that is that the copper coming into our building
connects to an "RT" (telco lingo) hut and doesn't go to the CO directly.
During Hurricane Ivan and Hurricane Dennis, our phones connected to
copper went dead after the batteries in the RT discharged....the
circuits I had on fiber remained up.

Charlie Wooten
Clear Channel Radio
Panama City, FL

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Craig Bowman
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 11:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...

During the most recent outage in the northeastern US, in the Metro
Detroit area, after three days without power the copper lines were
working.  After a few hours all the fiber was dead.  An interesting
note, one of the emergency management headquarters was serviced by
fiber.  Near the onset of one of the largest and longest blackouts in
the area's history they were forced to move to another building which
was serviced by fiber.  At least with copper back to the CO you only
have to worry about the CO's backup power.

Craig Bowman


Rich Wood wrote:

> ------ 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
>
>
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