Photovoltaic solar panels are the sensible answer to unlimited backup
for FIOS. They can be standard equipment with FIOS boxes. PV solar
panels are small and will keep the backup batteries charged
indefinitely, even on rainy days. The price for those panels is lower
than some of the new cable/DSL/ADSL modems. Searched online and found
one that retails at $44.99, and another for $37.95; will be much less if
bundled with FIOS service boxes.
We can have all of this technology at a good price. Why not remove the
oil subsidy from companies like Exxon-Mobile that have $40 billion net
profit at our expense, and use it for incentives to telcos to boost our
broadband system.
¡Sí, se puede!
Betty
Yes, but Verizon (and others) needs to develop a way to power phones
indefinitely when the electric grid goes down, i.e., with one big
generator at the central office or something else that works as well.
What's going to happen the first time there is a fire in a location
where no phones are working because the electric grid has been down
for 72 hours and all of the "backup" batteries died after four or so
hours?
Fred Holmes
At 08:35 PM 3/26/2008, Eric S. Sande wrote: OK, I'll come clean. It
absolutely sucks to maintain a twisted-pair
(not even coax) copper network Some, maybe a lot of it, is at or
near its end of service life. It makes absolutely no business
sense to continue to throw money at it, when the alternative is
more reliable, overcomes all of copper's distance and bandwidth
limitations, and allows for crushing the competition.
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