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Pinon Hills, CA | Wow Verizon's (and AT&T's) fiber ONT's have battery backups. I'm not sure about VZ's, but our newer one's have a failing battery alarm like a smoke detector which may or may not be useful depending on whether the subscriber is ever near enough to it to hear it. Personally I would like to see some sort of an verbal warning sent to the phone that the battery is in need of replacement but even that may not work considering the number of folks who ignore their chirping smoke alarms  I can't say I've seen alot of premise units installed by cable companies to provide dialtone but the few I have seen did not seem to have a battery backup at all.
So the summary on DSLR goes like this:
"Hurry up telco's and install fiber because Japan has it and your crusty old fiber is antiquated, worn out and unreliable.......but leave that network in place and maintain it because we want reliable phone service  in case some unknown disaster occurs and knocks out our power for longer than however long the backup battery lasts and all cell service is knocked out. And also.....you have to make the facilities available to DLECS AND CLECS so we have a choice! Do this NOW or we will switch to the cable company's network where we have no choice about anything and apparently no backup power for the phone at all."
Yes I'm being sarcastic and I'm not about to defend anything my company has done in regards to FTTP but damn....I would think VZ would get a little more support here given the reader base of this site.
Of course they want FIOS deployed areas off the copper network. Why wouldn't they? They're putting in the fiber, isn't that what everyone here wanted? Isn't that what they have in Japan or wherever else in the world people claim they have it better than us? On a less sarcastic note....what kind of power outage/disaster/phone backup plan do they have in these places that have fiber communications?
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| said by ATTek:On a less sarcastic note....what kind of power outage/disaster/phone backup plan do they have in these places that have fiber communications? What they don't have is an infrastructure that was supported by the US Government and used to generate the huge profits that have made the phone companies the seperate "nations and economies" that they are.
That infrastructure is the basis for emergency communcations in THIS country.To allow the country to become dependent on backup batteries is insane.Batteries are almost the first item to disappear during an emergency.
Madness.
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Pinon Hills, CA | said by madrhino:said by ATTek:On a less sarcastic note....what kind of power outage/disaster/phone backup plan do they have in these places that have fiber communications? What they don't have is an infrastructure that was supported by the US Government and used to generate the huge profits that have made the phone companies the separate "nations and economies" that they are. That infrastructure is the basis for emergency communication in THIS country.To allow the country to become dependent on backup batteries is insane.Batteries are almost the first item to disappear during an emergency. Madness. Fine....but answer the question. Do you really expect them to leave both networks in place? And how sure are you that these "fiber wired" countries' past and present networks are/were not government/taxpayer funded? You either want the network upgrade or you don't.
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