MANY times a land line works during a power outage when cell phones don't.
If it’s a phone company land line, then that runs on batteries at the main office. So yes, they run during power outages.
But, if it’s a cable company land line, they have a small battery inside your unit in the house and that gives out in a few hours. The phone company one won’t and will be okay for days and days, even if your power is off all during that time.
“MANY times a land line works during a power outage when cell phones don’t.”
I live in a very rural area. It’s true that a land line works (using an older phone) during a power outage, so I’ve been told, but my cell is what I use to report the outage with.
‘Many times a land line works during a power outage when cell phones don’t.
That’s one reason why we are KEEPing our land line.
2nd is messages left on our answer machine stink by folks using cell phones.