XPost: nz.comp   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-12-15 22:50:17 +0000, Lawrence D´Oliveiro said:   
   > On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:47:21 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   >> On 2025-12-15 07:41:53 +0000, Lawrence D´Oliveiro said:   
   >>>   
   >>> 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).   
   >>   
   >> It's cheaper to bundle the landline and internet together, rather than   
   >> pay two providers for basically the same service.   
   >   
   > It’s two different services, and I have the flexibility to do it my way.   
      
   It's basically the same service - a fibre modem. One is internet and   
   one is phone, but there's no difference as to how they work. That means   
   you're paying $100 (for example, $50 for each service) per month,   
   instead of just $60 per month for a bundled service.   
      
   We used to have a separate phone (Spark) and internet accounts   
   (Vodafone home cellular), until they dropped the copper service and   
   then we bundled the two with Spark.   
      
      
      
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > Which were powered independently from my home.   
      
   It depends on where the power outage is. If the whole street is out,   
   then the street-side cabinet or local exchange were likely to be too   
   (although bigger ones sometimes had their own generators to start up).   
      
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