XPost: nz.comp   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-12-15 07:41:53 +0000, Lawrence D´Oliveiro said:   
   > On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:19:46 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   >>   
   >> We still have a landline, but because New Zealand is shutting down the   
   >> copper lines, our landline is now through the internet connection, which   
   >> is through the 4G cellular.   
   >   
   > I have my landline via fibre, but not through my Internet provider. My   
   > Internet access is done through another provider (also via the same   
   > fibre).   
      
   That's the expensive way to do it and only partially gets around the   
   lack of internet conenciton in the sense that if it's the providers   
   fault, one or the other may still be working, but if it is the fibre   
   fault, then neither will work.   
      
   It's cheaper to bundle the landline and internet together, rather than   
   pay two providers for basically the same service.   
      
      
      
   >> It's a bit silly since if the internet goes down, so does the landline ...   
   >   
   > What I worry about is inability to make emergency calls if/when the power   
   > goes out.   
      
   That was still a problem in ye old days of copper lines - the phone   
   still had to have power via that copper wire, as did (and still do) the   
   roadside cabinets and exchanges.   
      
   The cordless phone usually require their own power via a standard wall   
   socket, no matter which type of connection they use.   
      
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