I’m talking pre cell and pre internet domination. My grandma’s house /neighborhood lost power this winter and there was always the reliable old long corded landline that we ordered pizza with as a matter of fact.
Sure, but no switches lost power in this outage. And yes the power in my home could be on, but if the phone company itself has no electricity 🙃 then sure.
But generally speaking, that doesn’t happen, and it didn’t happen here. Land lines work without power in nearly all circumstances because the power comes through the land line itself.
But the statement you’re making is a silly one. I could say “your cell phone will never work when all the cell towers are powered down and you don’t have wifi and your phone company has no power either. 😑”
Still
I’ve never had a land line not work when the power in large areas around me goes out.
“BUT WHAT IF YOU DON’T PAY YOUR BILL AND YOUR PHONE COMPANY IS PART OF A BUSINESS HOSTILE TAKEOVER AND THEY ABANDON YOU As A CUSTOMER”
uhhh… yeah I guess it won’t work then. Like what are you trying to prove here?
I think you missed the entire point, the outage in the article was caused by a Cisco update gone wrong, its the switch hard and software they make… If its an update or a power outage isn’t relevant, it can happen to everything,
And i literally said the only actually 99.99% reliable things are long distance radio and satellite. None of these are usually hooked up to a the grid, unless you need a relay station for the radio.
The thing is that you’re both right: your landline at your home would continue to work during a power outage, assuming the central office still had power or there wasn’t a mechanical failure there. And if the CO went down, your phone would stop working. And this is a case of the CO going down.
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When it goes out in your house or on your street tats one thing but when the switch is out its out.
The only actually redundant option is long distance radio or satellite.
Also nowadays normal landlines go over internet as well.
I’m talking pre cell and pre internet domination. My grandma’s house /neighborhood lost power this winter and there was always the reliable old long corded landline that we ordered pizza with as a matter of fact.
When the power goes out at your house, cool, your street/neighborhood cool, the switch, you are offline.
https://telephones.att.com/telephones/corded-telephones/no-ac-power
Sure, but no switches lost power in this outage. And yes the power in my home could be on, but if the phone company itself has no electricity 🙃 then sure.
But generally speaking, that doesn’t happen, and it didn’t happen here. Land lines work without power in nearly all circumstances because the power comes through the land line itself.
But the statement you’re making is a silly one. I could say “your cell phone will never work when all the cell towers are powered down and you don’t have wifi and your phone company has no power either. 😑”
Still I’ve never had a land line not work when the power in large areas around me goes out.
“BUT WHAT IF YOU DON’T PAY YOUR BILL AND YOUR PHONE COMPANY IS PART OF A BUSINESS HOSTILE TAKEOVER AND THEY ABANDON YOU As A CUSTOMER”
uhhh… yeah I guess it won’t work then. Like what are you trying to prove here?
I think you missed the entire point, the outage in the article was caused by a Cisco update gone wrong, its the switch hard and software they make… If its an update or a power outage isn’t relevant, it can happen to everything,
And i literally said the only actually 99.99% reliable things are long distance radio and satellite. None of these are usually hooked up to a the grid, unless you need a relay station for the radio.
The thing is that you’re both right: your landline at your home would continue to work during a power outage, assuming the central office still had power or there wasn’t a mechanical failure there. And if the CO went down, your phone would stop working. And this is a case of the CO going down.
Remember the northeast blackout of 2003? My landline still worked fine…
Because the switch still had power. And no, im in Germany i don’t know every minor thing about us history…
Just read the thread.