I've used POTS twice this month alone when the power went out(along with the heat), while it was less than 20 degrees outside. I consider that enough of an emergency use to be worth having and paying for. In addition, the sound quality is superior to any non-POTS service I've heard. If Verizon would include POTS in their TV/Internet/Phone package, I would have signed up with them long ago.
Richard P. > 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. >> 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/ ** *************************************************************************
