 DownTheShoreTag, you're itPremium
join:2003-12-02
Beautiful NJ
kudos:11 | LOL Why does this remind me so much of how AT&T used to continuously try to charge me $5/mo for the privilege of being my long-distance provider, even though I never made any long-distance calls?
I've been seeing Verizon commercials today in NJ stressing how they still provide service "when the power goes out". Don't know about the rest of you folks, but power rarely goes out for an extended period of time here. It takes a really massive storm with a lot of downed trees and power lines for an outage to last more than an hour or two (usually from a transformer blowing or some fool crashing into a pole carrying power lines). And even then, almost everyone and their brother has a cell phone.
Not to mention the fact that when there is some sort of catastrophic outage, you may get a dial tone, but the lines are too clogged to get a call out. 
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join:2000-07-23
Washington, NJ
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| said by DownTheShore:I've been seeing Verizon commercials today in NJ stressing how they still provide service "when the power goes out". ... And even then, almost everyone and their brother has a cell phone. Not to mention the fact that when there is some sort of catastrophic outage, you may get a dial tone, but the lines are too clogged to get a call out. My Verizon "dry loop" DSL uses their central office power backup system in the event of a power failure. My DSL modem and Vonage adapter are on a small UPS here. I still have my VOIP service when the power goes out...
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