“Can’t tell you the times it’s saved the day when the power goes off in a storm!”
Don’t let them connect you to fiber optic, because it’ll be dead as a door nail when power goes off:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3925845/posts?page=73#73
Not mine.
I have a battery backed up piece of equipment from the phone company.
Before we got fiber, my old landline phiones quit working when the house power went out because we had replaced ALL of our old POTS (Western Electric) rotary dial phones with new, wireless handset ones.
The handsets had a battery (natch) but the main units did not.
I finally scrounged around for and old rotary just for backup.
This was well before we got cell phones.
Oh...
I also bought a large enough generator to power the essential things in the house: furnace blower, refrig and lighting.
Once when the power was out; I had disconnect items unneeded at the time; one of which was the sump pump in the basement.
After power came back; I plugged everything back in; so I thought.
Later; as we then got torrential downpours that flooded the yard during the night, I awoke to about 3” of water downstairs.
Now I do NOT unplug the sump pump!