[BC] Vonage (etc) vs copper dial line]

[R A Meuser]

Well not exactly. Verizon did not do well at all in the last blackout.
They did not do well on 911 either. If anyone thinks they can depend on
telco battery in the 21st century, they are fooling themselves.


Rich Wood wrote:
> ------ At 01:03 AM 1/28/2008, Dave Dunsmoor wrote: -------
> 
>> They have better than UPS, their stuff is run by rows of batteries on
>> standby power.
> 
> 
> One New York City outage happened because they didn't recharge those 
> batteries. That was when they were Nynex. It's much better under Verizon.
> 
> Rich
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