Originally Posted by
pax britanica
I think the internet working post power cut is unlikely and consequently your VOIP will go dead as well.
Agreed, unless you have a UPS AND there is a UPS at the exchange or the exchange has an independent supply unaffected by the power cut.
Originally Posted by
pax britanica
Old landline phones will mostly work, the power for your phone comes from the exchange over copper wire and the exchange has massive batteries that will back up the power for at the very minimum a day.
After the changeover, what OpenReach is saying is that old landline phones will NOT work because the power for the phone will no longer come from the exchange over the copper wire. tHe exchange may still have backup power but it won't be channelled down the copper wires of those that don't have FTTP yet.
Originally Posted by
pax britanica
But you still have your mobile and unless you live alone the odds are there is more than one 'mobile device' in the property voice calls should be fine unless the power cut takes out the nearby phone mast and even then unless you live in a very rural area your phone can probably link to more than one mast.
Our last house was less than half a mile from the M6 but the cells were designed to give a good service to the motorway traffic (the tower was between us and the motorway) and our mobile reception was piss-poor even when everything was supposedly working normally!!