djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
 ·PHONE POWER
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
 ·RoadRunner Cable
3 edits | Not too surprising for DSL - Unless you're on an RT, there's no active equipment between you and the CO that needs powering. And I assume COs are very well poised to maintain power during a power outage.
RTs are, again, tied to voice services, so those are also surely designed to run during a power outage.
Cable has a lot of active equipment between the end user and the plant that needs powering. I remember back when I had MediaOne (no phone services offered), whenever there was a power outage, there was a predictable amount of time it took for their data services to come back up once power was restored. It was sort of like waiting for their computers to boot-up!
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