[PapaBear3625]

#11: If you switched your phone to fiber-optic service, your landline phone will only work for a few hours after power goes out. A decade ago, the phone system supplied its own power over the phone line. Now, with fiber, it relies on a rechargeable battery in your basement, which will only last a few hours.

[OldPossum]

#11: If you switched your phone to fiber-optic service, your landline phone will only work for a few hours after power goes out. A decade ago, the phone system supplied its own power over the phone line. Now, with fiber, it relies on a rechargeable battery in your basement, which will only last a few hours.

Because of this situation I have an old style, hard-wired phone in my house. It keeps on going when the power goes out.

[publius911]

Now, with fiber, it relies on a rechargeable battery in your basement, which will only last a few hours.

Thank you for sharing that, but it suggests a gross oversimplification. If you truly know about this topic, can you be more specific?

If in fact that rechargeable battery is all that would maintain telephone service, we all have the option to provide as big a battery as we want, to maintain service for days, weeks or months if we so decide.

No?