GNXPower
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join:2003-12-18
Huntington Beach, CA
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Re: Who cares
Well POTS doesn't always work. During the last big N.E. power outtage for instance, phones went dead too. Plus add to that the fact that the vast majority of todays telephones are so fully featured they require 110V service anyway.
9-1-1 in and of itself isn't selling POTS. It's the lack of an alternative that is selling POTS.
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SBC ST
join:2003-08-05
Strongsville, OH
| reply to pnh102
If the customer is using their DSL as the broadband source, it would be utilizing the same physical infrastructure as the traditional POTS. So yes, that signal will be there no matter what*.
And on the second part, if the Verizon VoIP customer is not using the Verizon network (DSL line) for the broadband connection, there is no way to give the customer a traditional "backup" POTS line. (unless you try to work something out with the local ILEC, but good luck!) 
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pnh102
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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But isn't reliability needed to match the kind of availability you get with POTS-provided 911 service? I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I am seriously wondering. The main selling point of POTS is that 911 always works, even during a power outage or other major disaster. Unless the underlaying broadband connection is as rock-solid, VOIP cannot sell 911 on that kind of promise.
One alternative for Verizon would be to include the POTS line at no extra charge (or for $5 a month or some other obscenely cheap rate). Give it as freebie for DSL customers.
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