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Originally Posted by RLW
I hear you about all the good things and hat was why I wanted to change, but the problem was that I asked 3 or 4 times if the system had battery backup and they said YES. I need it as I'm disabled and have a medical conditions and also my alarm system requires it so I would like it at all times unless a wire came down. The power outage on 2/25 I did not have any phone service like I would have had with the verizon system which has a battery setup in your home that keeps the phone on line for 8 hours and/or Union Communications. I had to go to my neighbors home to use his Union Com working phone. For that reason and only for that reason I decided to change back asap.  |
Our cable moden battery back-up did keep the phone part of the cable modem on-line during the recent power outage but the metrocast cable was down so the phone service was also down. In our case we have cell service at home so we had continued communications.
If you don't have cell back-up then plain old phone service is the most reliable albeit short on other features. Those phone lines are the lowest ones on the pole and least vulnerable to breakage by falling branches. Also the plain old phone service provides it's own power while cable depends on the local power utility to power many cable system repeaters.