b10010011Whats a Posting tag?
join:2004-09-07
Bellingham, WA Reviews:
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Re: Simple Solution said by 53059959:i'll just use my cellphone if power goes out. That may help in a short term small area outtage but don't count on it during an actual emergency. Last time we had a real emergency here the celphones were all jammed. They were even anouncing on the radio for people to stop trying to use their celphones because the police and fire departments need them, my POTS line worked fine and there was plenty of circuits avaialble. |
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Primis1
join:2005-06-13
Coldwater, MI | That's because an AT&T building there was literally burning for a while, and a lot of landlines and cablesystems were knocked out entirely from it. That was a fun day to work for AT&T |
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b10010011Whats a Posting tag?
join:2004-09-07
Bellingham, WA Reviews:
·Comcast Formerl..
3 edits | said by Primis1:That's because an AT&T building there was literally burning for a while, and a lot of landlines and cablesystems were knocked out entirely from it. That was a fun day to work for AT&T Nope not the emergency I was talking about.
This »www.historylink.org/essays/outpu···_id=5468 is the emergency I was refering to. No telephone lines, cable lines, AT&T buildings, or cel towers were involved. But every celphone provider was useless simply because the system was overloaded. |
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tperl
join:2005-11-15
Columbus, OH | I did not have a cell phone back in 1999. |
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b10010011Whats a Posting tag?
join:2004-09-07
Bellingham, WA Reviews:
·Comcast Formerl..
| said by tperl:I did not have a cell phone back in 1999. Neither did I, now you do, I do and pretty much everyone else does too. Thats just going to lead to cel-system overload even faster in times of emergency |
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just unhook the battery until you need to use the phone. That way the battery is not drained and it will have a charge when you need it. When the power come back on, hook the battery back up. |
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xirianPremium
join:2003-01-26
Beacon, NY
kudos:1 | reply to b10010011
said by b10010011:said by 53059959:i'll just use my cellphone if power goes out. That may help in a short term small area outtage but don't count on it during an actual emergency. Last time we had a real emergency here the celphones were all jammed. They were even anouncing on the radio for people to stop trying to use their celphones because the police and fire departments need them, my POTS line worked fine and there was plenty of circuits avaialble. During the huge power otage here, I couldn't get through via landline, but my cell phone worked perfectly. Just because it goes one way one time, doesn't mean it'll always be that way. |
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 NOCManMacChatterPremium
join:2004-09-30
Colorado Springs, CO | reply to Primis1
Ah so the outage in Texas was related to that fire eh..
Could of swore Ma Bell said it was something else lol.
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 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | reply to b10010011
they also have more capacity nowadays... |
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said by tperl:I did not have a cell phone back in 1999. I did. This is a fun game. I did not have cell phone in 1995. |
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