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When you refer to landlines are you referring to copper wire landlines that still work even if electricity is out or you referring to phones that people consider a landline because it part of a Fios or Comcast type of bundle that may only work about 8 hours on a battery backup?
One reason I keep my landline (cooper wire) is because even if I loose power for 24 hours it still works. Just wondering if there are two different types of land lines.
the copper lines have power because the power supply is at their end... if they lose power, your line doesn't work either
it's like running an electric cord from your neighbors house if your house loses power
there isn't a magic copper line that powers itself
When you refer to landlines are you referring to copper wire landlines that still work even if electricity is out or you referring to phones that people consider a landline because it part of a Fios or Comcast type of bundle that may only work about 8 hours on a battery backup?
One reason I keep my landline (cooper wire) is because even if I loose power for 24 hours it still works. Just wondering if there are two different types of land lines.
Landlines have their own source of power through the physical phone lines. Secondly, if you are using a cordless landline phone, it will not work. You would have to use a wired phone to be able to make/receive calls during a power outage.
Nah! All of the above still depend on grid-electricity, or backup generators provided with a sufficient duration fuel. If you want to be FULLY prepared, get a flock of homing pidgins. No electricity needed by them!
Nah! All of the above still depend on grid-electricity, or backup generators provided with a sufficient duration fuel. If you want to be FULLY prepared, get a flock of homing pidgins. No electricity needed by them!
Then you have to feed them (fuel) and clean up their crap, and take care of their medical needs.
Landlines have their own source of power through the physical phone lines.
Landlines have rooms full of batteries to provide power through the phone lines. Eventually that room full of batteries will run down, but they are big enough to keep going for a reasonable amount of time.
You can simulate this backup with battery chargers that keep extra batteries available for your cell phone.
There are a variety of backups and if you want to go totally 3rd world a hand crank. If you crank of 10 minutes you should have enough juice for 5 minute call. However, you normally want to use the power in your batteries that you charged up using your home electricity while the power was on. The hand crank is for the zombie apocalypse or a tree falling on your power lines where you lose power for more than 5 days. https://www.macworld.com/article/208...e-devices.html
My friend pays $90+ to Verizon to keep a landline, so she has a phone line in case of a power emergency (which never happens for more than an hour). That's a lot of money to pay out when you can just buy some backup batteries.
If you're looking for a source to charge your electronics for several days of power outage, I stumbled across one unexpected source.
A car battery "portable battery charger'. It's a cigar-box sized battery that you keep on a wall-outlet trickle charger, then carry to your car when it needs a jump-start. Mine has a cigarette convenience outlet so it can also be used for powering beach trip boom-boxes and air mattress inflators.
After getting it to solve a car problem, I realized it would also help during a power outage. It will have enough capacity to charge all my personal electronics way more often than I'd ever need, for days, perhaps weeks.
$40 from your local car parts store, and is portable, easy to use for the other, above noted, conveniences.
My friend pays $90+ to Verizon to keep a landline, so she has a phone line in case of a power emergency (which never happens for more than an hour). That's a lot of money to pay out when you can just buy some backup batteries.
Wow! 90x12=$1080 a year, $10800 over 10 years! And I thought paying $50 a month for an ATT landline was a waste But at least mine was a copper line
Wow! 90x12=$1080 a year, $10800 over 10 years! And I thought paying $50 a month for an ATT landline was a waste But at least mine was a copper line
Yes, when I check it out online it says $60.99 for Verizon Freedom Essentials. But when I looked at my friend's bill she had over $30 in taxes and surcharges. She had nothing unusual , like overseas calling plan. I don't remember all the charges, but they were the usual BS fees.
I call any surcharge or fee BS, if it is something that you don't have the option to drop and it is not a tax. It's just deceptive pricing.
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