That's true. But there are two things to consider. 1) POTS will go out too during emergencies, as it too is a trunked system, relying on having only a few users on at a time. 2) On a day to day basis, how often do catastrophes happen? Last time I remember the phones not working was on 9/11, but I had POTS back then. I bet VOIP would have worked fine.
I just don't think it's realistic to base our lives around remote possibilities. But if you do, then you MUST go all the way and get an amateur radio license and maintain a working station with emergency generators. Having a POTS line is a really false sense of security, at a fairly high comparative price. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:28 PM, db <[email protected]> wrote: > Remember that with VOIP if the power goes out... VOIP will tend to go out > too while POTS tends to be the last comm. service standing. And in times of > regional crisis, cellular is typically out too. For a period after the > Seattle and LA earthquakes and 9/11 all cell circuits were busy. POTS has a > dependability advantage not always factored in when calculating the > economics... > For that purpose, I keep a stripped down POTS line as the way to stretch my > cell minutes and to add dependability. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
