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   From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   In comp.misc Your Name  wrote:   
   > 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:   
   >>>> 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).   
      
   The little rural tin-shed exchange that mine's connected to has   
   battery backup. I'm on the same power line and it keeps working.   
   Some cordless phone units can take power from the handset battery   
   when there's a blackout, and I use an old corded phone anyway.   
      
   A few years ago they stuffed something up at the exchange and when   
   there was a power outage you'd still hear a hiss on the line and   
   the phone buttons made beeps, but no dial tone or response.   
   Annoyingly the exchange would remain broken once the power came   
   back on until someone came out and reset it maybe a week later.   
   _Eventually_ they fixed that and now the phone is back to working   
   during a blackout until the exchange battery dies.   
      
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