On 10/11/19 4:31 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
The FCC asked a half-dozen carriers about their network resilience
plans last month. Comcast was not one of the service providers askedd
about their plans.
The FCC should have looked closer at Comcast in California. While it
was expected many people would loose home Internet, voice, video
service when their Customer Premise Equipment lost power. The FCC no
longer requires battery backup for CPE. That is now a customer
responsibility.
It turns out, Comcast's outside plant was woefully unprepared to
handle long, i.e. 24 hour, power outages. And even when power is
restored to people's homes, Comcast service is often still down.
So I knew that telcos are required to battery backup pots, but are isp's
too? I have a dinky little provider who also provides pots, but i have
never been clear whether dsl stays up too in a blackout.
Mike
