Comments on: No additives

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:09:17 +0000

Back during the Atlanta-area ice storms of 2000, I was working the counter at the local power co-op while the working-for-a-living crews were out repairing the damage in our particular service area. That was when I first learned about how the telco manages to stay up and running when everybody else loses power.

There were areas where the batteries were almost run down before the grid power was restored.

By: Charles Pergiel

Charles Pergiel — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:55:44 +0000

We signed up with Verizon for FIOS (optical fiber) a couple of years ago. They took away our analog phone line and replaced it with a digital substitute. So now in case of a power failure, instead of running off batteries in the local telco office, it runs off a battery in my garage, which is supposed to be good for eight hours. We haven’t had a significant power failure here that I can remember, but then civilization hasn’t collapsed lately either.

By: Brian J.

Brian J. — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:13:02 +0000

I’d be all on the analog phone service so long as it comes with a heavy rental rotary phone.

Because I’m tired of the depreciation of the tone phones I buy.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:22:19 +0000

Come to think of it, they could pitch it as a security feature. “Foil the bots! Get a new IP address every time you sign on!”

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:09:16 +0000

“Why hassle with broadband when you can have slim, trim, DIAL-UP!”