Maybe an NID with an integrated phone and a hand-crank-generator so you can always crank it to make a call :)
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:59 PM, William Herrin <herrin-na...@dirtside.com>wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jack Bates<jba...@brightok.net> wrote: > > I've yet to hear an ILEC suggest that they not > > have batteries in the NID to support the voice in power outages. > > The battery in my FTTH NID is completely useless. It maintains the > voice side of the NID but drops the Internet side. Only, I cancelled > the POTS service years ago and use a Vonage phone. So now I need a > second UPS for the already-battery-backed NID or I lose phone service. > Brilliant design that. > > IIRC, when my FTTH was installed, I was told: here's the battery. It's > now your problem. When this light goes red, call the number here to > BUY a new one. > > Folks handle batteries for their flashlights and emergency radios and > cars and cordless phones. I fail to understand why asking the customer > to handle one more battery would stymie them. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > > -- > William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us > 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> > Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 > >
