During Katrina the only way to reach many of the people in and around
the NO area was text messaging on cell phones.
Land Lines were out, Some Cell towers were overwhelmed and the
Internet of course was out.
During the tornado in Enterprise, AL, again Cell phones were one of
the few communication ways going.
Cell is becoming almost as reliable as land line and in some cases better.
Stewart
At 01:43 PM 2/25/2009, you wrote:
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.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[email protected]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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