4 ms·
Are there any actual land line providers left? During the US east coast blackout 20 years ago, cellular networks and cable internet were both unavailable widely
by threecheese 1y ago
Are there any actual land line providers left? During the US east coast blackout 20 years ago, cellular networks and cable internet were both unavailable widely. It was frightening. However, land lines were generally usable given they had hardwired low voltage and didn’t rely on internet or cellular telecom infra. My current home has an old-school Verizon landline termination that’s unused.
My current “land line” is VoIP through my internet provider, and when the power or internet are down I have no way to communicate (given my cellular also rides the internet, using a Verizon femtocell, bc the local signal stinks).
- tocs3 1y agoWe had a land line until early this year. We dropped because the service had gotten so bad.
- toast0 1y agoYes, I signed up my MIL for a real landline when she moved out here about 3 years ago. But it's $60/month for a landline; I'm only doing it because we do get frequent utility power outages and I hope the central office stays up longer than cell towers. I haven't followed up to find out when we had a long outage, but cell towers only stay up for 4-6 hours, and when we have an outage of more than a minute, it tends to be at least 24-48 hours.