Marko - I'm willing to buy that beer, though I'll stick with ale, if you can find the reference.
No relevant hits on guarantee, outage, power or failure. You will, no doubt, remember Vic Boersma. Vic, is his unique sarcastic wit, once chastised me (either in this forum or in TREG) for making a similar regulatory claim. My subsequent research proved him correct. Don't forget that Part 68 came about after divestiture, out of a claim to have third-party CPE not do harm to the network. Regards, er ... Cheers! Peter L. Tarver, PE [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:22 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Should telephones still work during > power loss? > > > Hey Peter, > > I am willing to bet a beer that there is > something in 47 CFR (FCC) that requires a certain > battery back-up for Analog POTS services. RBOCs > are still regulated monopolies and wouldn't keep > investing in battery back-up without the proper > regulatory requirements in place. > > There appears to be almost zero financial > incentive to motivate them. Think about the > financial impact of not providing service during > a black-out: > - Home customers will still pay the same rate > - Business customers *may* get a reduction in > billing *if* they complain and *if* they have > some type of QoS contract in place and *if* the > contract doesn't exclude "Acts of God". Too many > "ifs" to be a significant loss of revenue, IMHO. > > Don't forget one thing, the battery back-up > systems operate for <4 hours (can be extended > with a diesel generator at larger COs) so how > much revenue is really protected compared to the > huge investment? I don't see a valid business > model here so it smells strongly of regulation. > > The search terms you are using are not returning > a positive result but it is difficult to predict > how a requirement such as this could be written > in the "US Federal Legalese" language. Maybe > terms such as "Guaranteed Service", "Loss of > power", or "power outage" would return a hit? > > Cheers, > Marko > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Scott Douglas [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
