[js1138]

Besides, many people have generators. That will give you electric power, but won't help if you get your internet through the power line. The phones are much more reliable.

[Ready4Freddy]

Agreed, unless the hurricane blows the phone lines down, too. POTS' reliability is the main reason I've never been tempted to go with some sears-like phone company, or even AT&T or Verizon, instead of my ILEC (SBC), for residential.

Well, that, and the fact that ADSL was the only broadband game in my neighborhood until Comcast finally started offering cable inet here. The phones are much more reliable.