from https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/service_outage_information.htm
FAQs How do I make an emergency phone call if my backup power source dies? Your Fiber-Optic service requires electric power to operate – during a power outage you will not be able to make or receive calls, including 911 calls, without a backup power source. Depending on your equipment type, a battery backup option is available to you. The Battery Backup Unit (BBU) will shut down approximately one hour before the battery has been completely drained. If you need to make an emergency phone call after the BBU has shut down, press the Battery Emergency Use button on the ONT. This should enable the ONT to reboot and provide up to one hour of talk time. After the unit has rebooted, the BBU will operate until the battery has been completely drained, after which you will not be able to make or receive phone calls. For the PowerReserve device, in the event you lose voice service and you need to make an emergency call, simply replace the 12 D-cell batteries in order to make or receive phone calls. FAQs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
