On 24/12/2020 00:38, Axel Berger wrote:

> Phones used to work in emergencies. There was a direct wire to the
> exchange and that was battery buffered. Today an electrity blackout
> means no phone, no emrgency calls for an ambulance and no fire service
> in case one of the many candles used topples over. You're cutr off like
> rural places in the 19th century but unlike them totally inable to cope
> on your own.
>

I have had SIP, cable only, for over a decade. It needs to be powered.
It really isn't a problem. We have mobile phones, the argument about
needing a powered phone for emergency services doesn't carry much weight
any more.

Also, a break in the IP connection to the internet backbone, routing, is
far more common than an electrical blackout. For me at least 10 times as
common in the last decade.

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