 maartenaElmoPremium
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Orange, CA
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 ·AT&T U-Verse
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| reply to Matt
Re: Fios takes out the power backup selling point said by Matt:said by tmh :
The backup battery dies after 8 hours. Then your SOL.
How many emergencies require you to be on the phone for 8 hours? It's not so much that..... it's extended powerloss, which is a very real threat, especially in the hurricane-states along the gulf and atlantic. Friends of mine only saw a little bit of a RAIN STORM up in Northern Louisiana when Katrina came barreling through.... their town had virtually no damage, maybe an uprooted tree here and there. But they were without power for three weeks because a major power line further south - closer to the actual path - had failed, and couldn't be repaired until weeks later.
Now..... in THEIR case, the phone was out as well. Completely. And it took about three days for them to repair that and get it back up and running, so having a land line is no guarantee either.....
In my case? I have a Vonage line and a land line. The landline is the business line for my wife's business, the vonage line is our regular home phone.
$25 unlimited America, Canada and serveral other countries. Hasn't let me down yet, and if there really is a bad, bad power failure..... I will still have that land line.
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