Kurt Weiske wrote:
>  offers an internet/telco modem that
>  provides dial tone. There's a spot in the modem to install a small
>  battery backup,

I'm afraid that's probably useless. Anyway UPS' exist and it would be
easy to proviode the same externally in your home. Your backup may
provide a nice flawless dial tone, but in a power outage it's the
external line I expect to be down. You no longer have the direct
uninterrupted wire to the phone exchange with its emergency power but
rather many active amplifier boxes in between.

I know very little about these things but the above is the gist of what
I believe to have picked up. I may well be wrong.


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