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Originally Posted by NowhereMan 1966
Theo nly drawback is if you lose power, you have 8 hours of battery backup.
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Why would that be a drawback? I would think eight hours of backup power would be better than nothing and would be more than enough to keep your telephone service going, as most power outages (except in very rare instances, like the blackout five years ago or so that left five states, including Ohio, without power for 24 hours) don't last much longer than a couple of hours at most. I have Time Warner cable (basic cable TV service only); I understand, however, from reading the fine print on my cable bill and in the company's ads that show up in my mail every now and then, that with their digital telephone service, there is no battery backup, so when your lights go out your TW digital phone service goes down as well. I think this is a design flaw in the system which absolutely must be corrected, because when your digital phone service goes down, you lose access to 9-1-1 as well--and there is no excuse for that. Nine-one-one is a very important number that everyone needs access to 24x7 in case of emergencies, even if the electricity is out. I am surprised Time Warner didn't think of this when their digital phone system was in the design stage; they should have designed an emergency backup battery (or some other type of emergency power source) into the system so that subscribers would, at very least, have access to 9-1-1 if and when they needed it.